Will vacation ruin my progress?

You don't ruin your progress in the course of a week, he said. You may very well see a higher number on the scale when you get home afterwards, but a lot of this is likely to be water weight. Even if you went completely off-track and gained a bunch of weight back, it wouldn't be fat, Syatt said.



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