Ask Autumn—Food & Fitness Q&A #2 | Autumn Fitness

What's up everyone? I am sitting here today looking through my social media accounts and I've gotten quite a few questions, so I've decided to answer some of them. So let's see. First one, how often can I work my abs? That's a great one. Everybody always wants that six pack coming in, especially since the weather is getting warmer. You can work your abs as often as you want. Really? Your core muscles, their endurance muscles, their stabilizers, they're meant to go the distance. So as often as you want to work them, get down there, put in 10 minute abs, pick any of the other ab videos that are on my YouTube channel, and feel free to work those abs. Question number two. Let's see. Do I have to use Shakeology or a protein shake in lieu of a meal on the 21 day fix? No, you don't have to use it. Shakeology, we call it the healthiest meal of the day. There are so many, so many vitamins and minerals and good things in Shakeology for you that it is great to have it in your day. If for whatever reason you don't have it, you don't want to order it, you forget to pack it, you don't have to use it as a meal replacement. By all means, feel free to eat your regular meals, but if you enjoy Shakeology like I do, get it in there as one of your meals. Question three, I'm lacking in creativity in my meals on the 21 Day Fix. What do I do? So actually, this should be really easy in terms of creativity. The world is your oyster. The list of foods that are on there, they're not meant to necessarily be eaten plain. Have fun with it, play with it, Mix and match, choose all throughout the list. You know, eating from the top of each list is the best in terms of quality of the food. But like I said, feel free to mix it up. You know, look at your chicken dishes and you can always be like, okay, I want to adapt a healthier chicken recipe that I found. So feel free to look up other recipes and then try to adapt them to how they fit into the 21 day fix. Like I said, you can mix and match all you want. So have fun with it, be creative with it. Don't think you just have to be like, okay, I just had chicken and I just had rice and I just had strawberries. Feel free to play with it. Grilling fruit, that's one I found to be really fun right now, especially since summer is here. So take your fruit out, throw a burger on the grill, throw your Fruit on the grill. Throw your veggies on the grill, you're good to go. Like I said, have fun and play with it. Autumn, how do you take your coffee? A lot. Take it a lot. I drink Americanos. On most days I order a medium Americano from Starbucks. So. So that's, I believe that is two shots of espresso and then it's water and I add a little bit of organic sugar to it. On very busy days or when I'm on the road, it's a venti Americano, which is for sure, four shots of espresso and water. But still considered a free food because I don't really put anything in it. I don't add cream to it. Like I said, it's a very little bit of organic sugar, but that's how I take it. Last question on here. How do you cook your oats? Oh, okay. My steel cut oatmeal. I do it with water. So I measure out my oats and then I cook them with my water. And then when I'm done, I add cinnamon, a little bit of agave or maple syrup, and sometimes I'll add a teaspoon of peanut butter to it. Also. Another fun one to do is I buy pumpkin pieces spice mix in the spice aisle. So sometimes instead of cinnamon, I just use that pumpkin pie spice along with a little bit of agave or maple syrup. But when I cook it, it's with water. I don't use milk on it. That's it. You guys, those are some answers to your questions. Keep hitting me with more and I'll be sure to log back on and try to get all the answers up to you guys as soon as possible. Please subscribe. Thank you for joining me and I'll see you next time. Bye. Sa.