A very long very sporty week-end

Nothing beats a few days away from everything, (nearly) without any daily connection with civilisation, to recharge our batteries.

On the program, a day with 6 hours intense hiking at 8500 feet including the ascent of 2 peaks. What pleasure to settle down at the end of the day and to savour the efforts of the day and, more importantly, enjoy the view!... well the views, plural.

The next day, it is Flume Trail... and here is the view, breathtakingly beautiful. The 33km mountain bike ride had some pretty impressive ascents,... right from the start, first ride uphill goes on for 3km... just to brake us in, as a warm up... but after the exertion we discover spectacular views, trails on the mountain side where the slightest distraction can send us flying down the hill... so, we leave blackberrys and other iPods to rest... we concentrate and, most of all, we reconnect with nature. The long ride burned more than 3500 calories!

Now, I am back... and what a return... I'll put everything in detail in tomorrow's post :)

The "no keys" diet, it's new, it's just come out ;-)

The day starts at 5 am with an interview, followed by another at 7 am for the French magazine BIBA

On an empty stomach: rooibos tea

1 km various swim + 100 floor abs + 1 minute plank + 100 bridges + 20 floor press-ups

Breakfast: 1 home made smoothie: almond milk + 1 banana + 2 tbs hemp/raw chocolate + 3 dattes... soo yum!

1 hour cycling + 15 minutes walk because I lost my car keys... so there I found myself forced but delighted to do all my errands by bike

15 minutes walk

Vietnamese lunch: 4 spring rolls (the fresh ones, not the fried ones) + peanut sauce + vietnamese tea

1h15 walk (still haven't found my car keys which forces me to move a little more)

Snack: a soya tchai tea + 1 banana + 1 Starbucks biscotti and, I must admit, I take a bite out of my friend's cheese danish

40 minutes passive muscle toning

Dinner: green salad + 6 large sushis + bottomless green tea

After a good nigh sleep... 1.250 km swim + 100 abs + 30 seconds plank + wake up call yoga and off to the hills

Ramadan video for those of you starting it soon

For those of you reading me who aren't on FaceBook, and haven't seen the video I shot just for you, here is a copy:

Ramadan Video link

On an empty stomach: 1 km swim + 250 water jog + 1mn plank + 100 floor abs

Breakfast: 6 fresh figs + rooibos tea + 1 slice toast (white, yes, its unusual) + melted cheese

After a morning spent with my accountants (yes sometimes one has to resign to some admin :)... than off to SF for a meet at the top :)

Japanese lunch: bottomless green tea + 14 sushis... that's too much but I let myself go and indulged!

50 minutes walk: 20 minutes downhill and 30 minutes steep uphill

Snack: 1 apple + 10 raw teriaky almonds

Dinner: vegetarian buffet: raw crackers, artichoke dips, fresh pineapple, smoked salmon, a slice toast with Costa Rican cheese

70 minutes passive muscle toning

After a few days rest, Golbach's conjecture

yes sometimes one must listen to one's body and get some rest...

I lemon juice in room temperature water... I sometimes read some foolish things about putting the lemon juice in hot water, knowing that heat will destroy the vitamin C! :)

Rooibos tea an then 1 km swim + 50 meters jogging in the water + 100 abs on the ground + 30 seconds plank + 30 wall press-ups

Raw breakfast: 1/2 papaya with lime + 2 little magical mushrooms (filled with a home made raw vegan pate) + a tiny slice lime tart all raw raw raw... and most ingredients are really hard to find :)

Lunch with a bunch of of little ones: 5 magical mushrooms (a raw dish I love) + a few baby new potatoes/mushrooms + 1/2 portion white meat with bbq sauce and for desert a small slice raw lime tart

40 minutes walk on the telephone

40 minutes passive muscle toning

Snack: 2 raw onion crackers with pesto and sun-dried tomatoes + 1 large pink grapefruit

15 minutes yoga to relax the body at the end of the day.

Dinner: cheese (several) with bread + tomato salad, hummus and onion crackers

A little boxing to let off some steam... and a great Spanish film based on a mathematical enigma... The Goldbach Conjecture... it stipulates that any even number greater than or equal to 4 can be expressed as the sum of two primes (the same prime can be used more than once). It is one of the oldest unresolved mathematics and number theory problems.

Explosive and fully packed day in LA

20 minutes yoga on an empty stomach... nothing better to start the day :)

200 floor abs

30 minutes walk to go a get my morning tea + 1 raw chia seed bar... a delight of concentrated energy that's good for the body!

I meet up with Miki, the celebs hairdresser on both sides of the atlantic... he changes my hair color, very dark nearly black, straight, long with a nice fringe... he makes me beautiful, thank you Miki!

1 hour walk

I grab a quick bite at Champagne, a small French restaurant chain: 1 vegetables crepe + 1 babyleaf salad and a small eggless chocolate creme brulee.

30 minutes walk

Incredible meeting with a woman famous for her ability to do and undo brands and peoples' images... she is interested in my case... but hush,... let' talk about it later.

No snack of course... I must run, off to the airport and fly home with a travel companion who works the Congo for a NGO

Dinner in the airport: 26 shrimps (the number is exact: it was written on the menu) + 1 bowl clam soup and a soda light... yes, once in a while won't kill me.

EL AY here I come

I pop over to LA to meet some power people as we call them here.

I am incredibly lucky... but hush, I won't say any more for now... as you know, I never divulge anything about my celebrities and friends, I don't use them to develop LeBootCamp... that would be so unethical :)

15 minutes walk on an empty stomach

Breakfast: 1 smoothie: home made almond milk + raw cocoa + hemp seeds + strawberries + vanilla extract, vroum vroum... + rooibos tea.

15 minutes walk in the airport

On board: 2 tomato juices + a few cassava chips + and grilles edamame... no time for lunch I go straight into a meeting

1 hour walk between 2 meetings and I even manage to fit in a mani-pedicure to be at my best tomorrow :)

Snack: a raw fruit and cereal bar (I always absolutely always have some in my bag)

I manage to fit in 200 abs before my shower tonight + 100 bridge butt lifts + 30 45 degree press-ups

45 minutes walk in high heels during witch I can't resist a a fat free sugar free frozen yogurt... not much damage done

Dinner at Marix Tex Mex, Jennifer (Aniston)'s favorite Mexican restaurant... At the beginning, we are good: a little ahi tuna tartar... followed by a burger without bread but with 2 slices tomato and a bowl fresh fruit... if we had left it at that, it would be a perfect LeBootCamp style meal... only, the waiter tempted us, it wasn't our fault, LOL, result? A lime tart... to save our honor we passed on the wiped cream :)

52 km on a bike, yes I did it, my very own Mont Ventoux

Answer for "Jackille", the address for the raw cafe I m talking about is 20th Harrison :)

Some days, like this one, we surpass ourselves!

Breakfast: a raw smoothie with home made almond milk + plum + vanilla extract + 1 banana... along with a pineapple white tea...

19 km cycling (with a many hills!!! it hardly ever went downwards)

Lunch in the hills: 1 slice from a companion's pizza + a chicken salad + 3 mouthfuls of a companion's cake + green tea

33 km cycling... even hillier and a great ride downhill to finish as we have to get down at some point!

no snack... this super-human, or at least, super-coach, effort has exhausted me and taken my appetite away.

30 minutes walk in addition for reasons I cannot explain...

Dinner: I force myself a little bit as my appetite still hasn't returned but I am sure it will be good for me: 1 roast chicken leg (with the skin of course, its tastier) + ketchup and a huge lambs lettuce salad + 2 plums for desert.

Rest day, kind of...

I am stiff all over after yesterday's intense training... so, let's take it very easy this morning

Breakfast: pineapple white tea + a bowl of wholegrain cherrios/almond milk and 1 sliced banana

30 minutes walk on the telephone

Lunch: in a raw food restaurant in San Francisco: Cafe Gratitude... a great place to spend a nice time with a man from the movies without putting on any weight.., but hush... confidential project on the way :) : raw lasagna (marinated zucchini as a base) + a generous slice of strawberry tart... all of it raw, of course

15 minutes walk

No snack because of the late lunch

100 butt squeezes

Dinner: gazpacho and grilled fish + 1 pink grapefruit

La Boutique Valerie Orsoni at La Redoute!!!

That's it!!!! La Redoute has launched the Valerie Orsoni Boutique on their French website... with other countries in the pipeline:) It is such a joy to see all the efforts and hard work of a united team come to such great results. The trust of our partners is also a pledge to the standard of our ethics... we a bathed in happiness... especially since other good news is on the horizon but hushshsh :)

Breakfast: pineapple flavored white tea + a small slice of kiwi/coconut tart + a handful blueberries

30 minutes ValJogMix: jogging, sprint, SambaBox (a registered trademark and project in the pipeline, very exiting!) I must point out that it is very well protected, that's for our VERY copycat competitors who read me :)))) this one, my dears will cost you a lot more dearly than the theft of my baby LeBootCamp repeatedly copied with several different faces... anyway, just you try, with the legal artillery we have in place, you will get yourselves burned, to my greatest pleasure.

20 minutes walk on the telephone with my favorite writer

Lunch: after a failed attempt at an organic grain tempeh, absolutely inedible that ended in the bin (thanks A for the suggestion hihihihi)... 1 Italian herbs sausage + tomato salad + 1 slice olive/ blue cheese brown bread and 2 little organic peaches.

nap, of course

40 minutes walk on the telephone with a great Hollywood producer

30 minutes fitness trail

10 minutes stretching

Snack: 2 slices banana bread, home made by a friend who wishes me well... she belongs to the slimmer's imps :)

40 minutes passive muscle toning (abs) whilst cooking

Dinner: wild rocket salad + frichti (quinoa, tofu sausage, tomato sauce and caramelised onions) + 3 slices bread with roqueford cheese + fruit salad (peach/strawberries)

Its my little hatchling's birthday

who is actually getting quite big, yes, here he is now officially a teenager!

Still, we begin the day with a 1 km swim in the pool together just for the sake of getting us going for the day.

Breakfast: 1 pink grapefruit + 1 handful blueberries + 1 bowl wholewheat Cherrios (I must admit it isn't very tasty, It feels a bit like eating sawdust, can't wait for the packet to be finished) + soya milk

Lunch: 1 cold pork chop with soyannaise + 1 tomato + Maldon salt/olive oil + 1 plum + 1 handful blueberries

100 abs on the killer abs lounger

50 wall press-ups

Message for Chm who posted a message with regards to a possible trip to SF... yes dear, if you come, you can have Alejandro all to yourself for an hour!

30 granny squats

50 leg sweeps on each side

1 hour accumulated walking

Snack: 1 frozen ice cream with fresh fruit (note that, it represents fewer calories/energy than a cereal bar, only 150... pleasure without guilt)

A lot of cooking for this evening's party that promises to be a hoot. My son has asked for home made pizzas tarts, and so on ...

Dinner party, so we enjoy: puff pastry spinach pies, mini quiches, mixed salad, home made pizza, kiwi/coconut tarts and strawberry and custard tarts - all accompanied by green tea :)

The Wii My Body Coach trailer !!!!!

I've been working with the BigBen team developing this game for nearly 2 years, since they chose me as their worldwide image for this product, which is a real extension to LeBootCamp... after so many months of hard work from everyone involved (my team also bust a gut over this project), the unmeasurable joy the first results provide us is a real reward to all our efforts!

White tea + 3 peaches from the garden

1 km swim in bath water (the pools water is heated to 33 degrees but it has a pro per length of 25 meters) + 5 nut crackers horizontally in the water :)

Breakfast: 1 soya yogurt + wholewheat cheerios

15 minutes walk

Geekettes lunch at the Orange Lab in San Francisco: edamame + green tea + sushi... we were helping ourselves off little boats... we didn't count them... great moment

15 minutes walk

Snack: 2 fibre bars I am testing, very nice... 280 calories for those of you who like figures

40 minutes walk + carrying bags

Dinner with friends: mixed salad + ptitim I perfect day after day + pork chop in mustard and reduced balsamic vinegar sauce... all in all it took me less than an hour to cook all this... it looks good, is a balanced meal and is tasty

50 leg balancer on each side

I perfect my ptitm :)

Breakfast: pineapple flavored white tea (yum) + banana, 1 handful cherries, 2 little peaches and 10 fresh cashew nuts

1 km swim

Lunch: 1 bison burger steak + 1 huge heirloom tomato + cherries

Snack: 2.5 oat and caramel bars (for those of you who are interested in calculating calories, that adds up to 320 calories)

1 km swim

Dinner: home made ptitim + home made strawberries and apple compote.

40 minutes passive muscle toning

Viva le walk on the telephone - 25th hour gym coaching :)

A great night uninterrupted sleep, it is unusual for me, so I make note of it.

On an empty stomach: lemon juice and Fauchon tea... It is running out... I need another rip to Paris to replenish that!

40 minutes walk on the telephone (yes, I like to get moving first thing in the morning in case I get caught for the rest of the day!)

Breakfast: 3 small gluten and dairy free pancakes... discovered at Trader's Joe... a truly genial recipe + 1 soya yogurt

15 minutes cycling

1km swim

15 minutes cycling

30 minutes cycling

Lunch: 3 sweet potato veggie steaks (really nice!) + sauteed peas in chicken gravy + 1 nectarine

1 hour in the magic hands of Alejandro... which does a world of good... ladies, for those of you who live close by, I do gift my dear Alejandro for birthdays :)

Snack: a handful Brazil nuts + 1 nectarine and a handful strawberries

45 minutes accumulated walk (on the telephone among other things)

Dinner: 1 bison steak + 1 mixed salad (wild rocket + cucumber + tomatoes and alfalfa sprouts) + 1 fruit salad (pineapple, coconut, strawberries)

30 minutes passive muscle toning :)

Rest day :)

Good night... life is beautiful... Eric and Anissa are coming back from holiday today, that's reason for celebration!

On an empty stomach: nothing... just resting... on the telephone, sitting, without moving... that's a bit different, isn't it? well, yes, it is important for the body to rest sometimes.

Fauchon "the d'ete" tea

Breakfast: 6 Brazil nuts + 2 nectarines + 1 banana

Lunch with the girls: huge mixed salad with nice alfalfa sprouts + 2 veggie burgers + a tiny cube ice cream

no snack

Dinner at the movies (UP, absolutely great film): 1 portion sweet potato french fries + mango sauce + 4 mouthfuls hamburger

I am all muscle stiffness :)

Oh dear, I surpassed myself yesterday... 38km with hellish hills... and all with a bike tht weights a ton (at least)...

painful awakening... my entire body is stiff... that shows which muscles I don't use enough and were called upon to clim those "le tour" hills!

I decide I will take it easy today to rest the "beast"

10 minutes walk on an empty stomach, that's it... what was I thinking... not to mention my male escort who decides to "get me moving" against my will!

Breakfast: a strawberry/banana smoothie with almond milk

1h15 hike in a canyon in the baking sun just before lunch, that qualifies as "on an empty stomach"

Lunch: a portion micuit tuna, green salad with raspberry/gorgonzola dressing (rather good combination) and huge big fries...

I lunched in Redwood city where the center looks like that by night :)

No snack of course, lunch was very late in the afternoon

1 km swim

Well, for a rest day, I've done quite a bit

Dinner: chicken fillet in mexican marinade + peas and tomato casserole and for desert, my indulgent 25g dulche de leche toffee... from Costa Rica, that was my last piece... I have to go back and get some :)

I progress in my reading about the birth of eugenics in the USA... this movement has really grown "thanks" to the descendants of Darwin... these ideas inspired the Nazis to create their racial "purification" program. An edifying topic not studied enough at school... not to say not at all.

38km + Rant about fat prejudice

Life is beautiful... sometimes you don't need much to have that outlook... and email, a call, a pleasant remark, a smile in the street, a compliment, some good news you did not expect any more, in short , a little detail can shoo the clouds away and let the sunshine return at light speed :)

Following an incident in the Paris suburb train, I wrote a little piece on how fuller figured women are often treated... you can read it here: newsletter LeBootCamp

Up with the first light... there are days like that :)

Fauchon the d'ete tea

40 minutes yoga

Breakfast: 1 small portion courgettes/onions + 1 slice sprouted seed bread (German bread) toasted with bruschetta + 25 grams Costa Rican caramel milk jam (I've hardly got any left, I need to plan another trip to replenish the stocks!).... yumyumyumy

30 minutes walk

50 leg balancers on each side

Lunch: a glorious enoormous green salad with plenty of good things in it: alfalfa sprouts, grilled peanuts, slightly grilled tuna, etc... all washed down with lovely rooibos tea.

38km cycling (yes you read right!) with tour de France hills... a little flavour of Mont Ventoux!

I come back with wobbly legs but proud to have pushed out of my comfort zone... you can see a map of my journey above... to see it in larger format just click on it :)

Well deserved snack: 1 smoothie: 1 banana + almond milk + frozen strawberries + 1 tbs mango ice cream

Dinner after a long jakuzzi to relax my very strained muscles: spinach leaves with feta cheese (with ketchup) all in front of a nice movie... that feels good!

The Ugly Truth is a great film... probably thanks to Gerard Butler still donning his "Indiana Jones air" :) - I do recommend this film wholeheartedly. The end is a bit predictable, the nice girl who is looking for the perfect man of her life (the one who is handsome, rich, kind, intelligent, has time for her, has eyes only for her, dresses well,...) falls in love with the bad boy who is meant to only be interested in getting laid but turns out to be starry-eyed himself and we like it... etc... we know that of course, but that is the power of the chickflick, to confirm that prince charming does exist :)

Answers to anonymous :) + Hindu prayer how do you do it?

For the Anonymous asking me where the hindu prayer is: you can find it in the "My Gym" space on the LeBootCamp website on this page

Breakfast: Green tea and lemon juice on an empty stomach + 1 bowl granola + soya milk

1 hour walk on the telephone

Lunch: a whole bunch of steamed asparagus + soyonnaise + zucchini and onions frichti

refreshing catnap

Many things are happening ----> great ;)

No snack but

40 minutes run listening to Dan Black and Daft Punk + 20 minutes walk

200 floor abs

30 push ups

100 nut crackers

100 gazelle thighs

Dinner: 1 spa wrap: a thin pancake (crepe) full of vegetables + 1 very well presented smart portion of french fries (fried yucca roots and other sweet potatoes, this isn't Mac Donald's)

PS: for anonymous who is writing about the ideal fat burning cardio zone, you are right... so right in fact, that I will put that topic on the menu of my next LeBootCamp newsletter!

BRUNO... have you seen it? What did you think?

I have a long day ahead of me...

I can't figure pout how the post office works in this country. I send an urgent piece of mail with the priority service to NY on saturday, we are wednesday and it still hasn't arrived... I can't believe it!

on an empty stomach, darjeeling tea + 1 home made boost (apple cucumber and strawberries)

30 minutes run to the sounds Dan black + Katy Perry

15 minutes walk

Breakfast: smoked salmon and blueberries, yum

Lunch: a tiny "bacon avocado"... no, not bacon from pig, its the name of the kind of avo :) very good, nearly wild... superb! + 1 Guatemalan pupusa + 1 vegetarian steak + 1 nectarine

15 minutes walk

15 minutes walk

100 abs

Snack: 1 nectarine + 5 brazil nuts

Dinner: 3 slices smoked salmon + 1 pupusa + 1 nectarine + 25 gr dolce de leche

200 nut crackers

100 leg sweeps on each side (during teeth brushing :)

Lots of meetings today,... but I will tell you more about that at a later date :)

I finish off with BRUNO... this film has had a huge build up here, the trailer was rather fun... the film... certainly not PC, that's for sure :) I'll let you make up your mind about it... I liked 50 % and hated 50% but I won't tell you witch parts they are.

I loved the last Harry Potter :) + Hindu Prayers? whazat?

Darjeeling tea

Boost Breakfast: boost (cucumber, strawberry, apple)+ 1 raw bar and I dash... another mad day lays ahead :)

1 hour elliptical machine with Paula (note that adds up to 540 burnt calories) + 15 minutes muscle toning exercises + 250 m swim

Greek lunch: a vegetarian plate: 4 falafels + a bit of white rice + tomato salad and tsadziki

15 minutes walk

Snack: 1 nectarine + soya yogurt + 25 grams Costa Rican Dolce de leche (I still had some left from my trip there, yummmy!)

Cinema: Harry Potter (wow) 1/3 hamburger + 1 portion sweet potato fries with mango sauce

20 push ups at 45 degree angle

60 Hindu prayers

200 butt squeezes

For Anonymous asking me what the Hindu prayers are, you can find all your answers on the LeBootCamp website here: Hindu prayer

Answers to your posts :) + le BootCamp and Valerie Orsoni in BILD

Luciole: yes, it is the Dan Black you mentionned :) - his next album is awesome... I've been listening to it in a loop (mainly 3 tracks that uplift me and give me energy and put a smile on my face)

Anonyme: yes, 6am is rather usual... but is can also be 1am for a lave radio interview in Europe or 5am... well a bit of everything really!

Anonyme 2: for the FBZ... could you give me more information? I might know under another name :) are you referring to fartlek perhaps?

1 liter green tea on an empty stomach + 2 nectarines + 1 handful strawberries + 2 slices smoked salmon

1h30 walk in the canyon with Paula who as great stamina... great pace!

Lunch: 1 slice smoked salmon + 1 vegetarian steak + 1 large portion blueberries + 1 banana

Snack: 2 nectarines + 1 handful strawberries

We are in BILD, the No1 German magazine. You can read the article, if you can read Teuton, by clicking here

ELLE, SANTE MAGAZINE, MADAME FIGARO

Following this very busy trip...

We are in this week's French ELLE, Sante magazine and Madame Figaro! Yes!

I rise very early as I have a big day ahead of me...

30 minutes walk on an empty stomach on the telephone + 15 minutes dance to the wild tempo of some great tracks

Lots of green tea... I lost 1 kg without even realizing during my frantic trip to NY...

By the way, don't be shy, I see huge traffic on the blog and everyone tells me about it but no one dares to post, please don't hesitate, your comments are welcome :)

1.5 hours cycling at good pace

Lunch: a plate vegetarian mezzes (without the bread)

1.5 hours cycling at good pace smothered in sun cream

No snack... I am dinning very early as we are having a movie night with friends... the last Woody Allen... I am a big fan.

100 butt squeezes + 200 floor abs + 50 push ups at 45 degree angle (men tease me but I can assure you they are very effective) + 60 hindu prayers

Great movie... good old proper woody Allen.

Diner: black tea, mussels and chips.

Very productive trip to NY and mystery photograph

Who is that with me on the picture above?

How I love the airline Virgin America!... spanking new aircrafts, which, in the context of recurring inc/accidents, is rather reassuring... charming crews, inboard entertainment worthy of its name, great comfort!

My days in NY city are very active... I decide to (hardly) not take taxis and tear down New York's blocks on foot... 1 block = 1 minute in average... the first day I walk 60x2 blocks (ie. there and back) that I walk down and up again... my hotel being on central park, and most of my meetings in SoHo/Chelsea/the City, I am planning a lot of up and down block cruising...

In the morning, admiring the stunning view out of my bedroom, I do abs, at least 100 to stay firm + floor press-ups (at least 20, more if on form) and buttock exercises...

On the food side, New Yorkers are slimmer and that's normal... indeed, compared to San Francisco, portions are smaller, bread and olive oil to dip and nibble in waiting for ones order are rarely served... In short, with the help of lighter menus and block to block striding, it is easier to stay slim here... not to mention that staying on the 36th floor of a gorgeous hotel, I get the impression that the breakfast is coming up on foot so I avoid it and fall back on my favorite raw bars I always cart around.

Some lovely visits to Soho House, the private club that starred in Sex In the City with its swimming pools on the roof... a very agreeable moment with some fantastic people.

Many big projects are coming to fruition in the next few weeks, we are all a bit tense but its not only normal but also good that way... we might even miss that feeling when all will be up and running, but its for our own good and that of the bootcampers...

I am back home now...

Life is good under the Californian sun... I listen to the latest Dan Black record, a talented British musician and I am a fan

I must be attracting them

I am referring to snakes, poisonous this time!

A typical Californian day, very sunny!

Up at dawn despite a short night... Fauchon tea (yes, I can even buy some here;) followed by an anti-aging breakfast (as you will find on LeBootCamp.com/rajeunir... English version imminent... keep your eyes peeled) : smoked salmon + a large bowl blueberries and strawberries + 5 Brazil nuts... TLC for your taste buds as well as your skin

5 km brisk walk in a canyon with only 300ml water... I hadn't counted on such heat! I walk on an empty stomach before lunch, of course, as I started at midday! So, as I turn a corner I hear tstststststst, I have disturbed a large rattle snake... its color is quite unusual, one I hadn't encountered before, nearly green! Now, those are deadly, I don't linger!

Lunch to Bollywood tunes (thanks to street festivals): babyleaf/feta salad + a roast vegetables and gruyere vegetarian sandwich.... delicious! I take the opportunity to try a a drink I have heard much about lately, Venga, a calorie burner, so they say... I am very sceptical but the taste isn't bad, at worse, I am only hydrating myself!

No snack because lunch was late.

1.25 km swim (all different styles not to get bored, I get bored easily)

Dinner: 1/4 roast chicken with the skin (yes, it is the tastiest part, I wouldn't deny myself the pleasure!) + plenty of baby leaf salad + 2 nectarines

40 minutes passive muscle toning

A classic coaching day

Breakfast: a generous handful Brazil nuts, great source of selenium (in short: good for the brain) + cherries (its all there is, no other available food sources around, I make do with what I find!)

1 hour walk

I have a rant about how fuller figure people are treated in our society... you will find it in your next LeBootCamp newsletter.

Mexican lunch: a huge tortilla soup + a small Los Cabos fish taco

1.25 km swim all different styles, on the water, under water, on my back, on the side etc...

Snack: a large bowl blueberries (I love them and they are very good for your eyes as they contain lutein, as eggs do) + more cherries + 3 squares milk chocolate

100 abs

2 minutes pelvic floor exercises

Dinner... I am waiting for friends to go out for dinner... I am starving and I have nothing to nibble to hand, all the better ;) when are they coming !??!

Aperitifs: a glass of champagne + Brazil nuts and some Japanese nibbly bits, Argentinian tapas dinner after the house gazpacho which is a must

Industrious day and cinema (that's also what coaching is about :)

Great day devoted to investors... everything is going well on that front so I am very happy :)

Breakfast: with 1h10 cycling on an empty stomach and many accumulated chores to catch up with... I forgot breakfast!!! That does not happen often to me, the stomach on legs:)

Lunch: a tortilla soup + a dozen corn chips + a small fish taco

15 minutes accumulated walk

200 butt squeezes

A very good, very constructive meeting with a board member... we love when things progress that well :)

Snack: 2 VitaminWater 10 (a flavored water with sweetened with Stevia, a delight for your coach :) OK, I admit it, I finish the afternoon relaxing at the cinema - The Proposal, a nice chick flick for me as love Sandra bullock :)

Dinner: 1 tomato soup (kind of gazpacho) + 1 turkey steak + 1 plum compote (yum) + 2 little cookies (the perfect weightloss coaching dinner:)

Fabien, the Duran Duran all to myself (nearly), Simon, its all good

40 minutes passive muscle toning

1 lemon juice

Breakfast: 10 brazil nuts + 2 peaches + 2 dates

1 hour walk on the telephone

Lunch: 1 pupusa + 1 veg steak + 2 dates + tchai tea

1 little nap before a very important meeting

Wow, what a day!...

A great meeting

Snack 3 handfuls dried fruit (home dried so, guaranteed no sugar added... all together I must be a whole apple and 5 strawberries) + the last 5 Calisson d'Aix :)

Diner on the go at Japan Town before a concert: edamame + 8 eel sushis + plenty of green tea

The concert was great (the music a bit too loud in my opinion and covers Simon's voice) from the VIP lounge, thank you Fabien :).... many emotions during this quite magic moment.

This perfect evening finishes with Simon and the band who join us in the lounge to come and say hi and give us a kiss.

My most sporty day of the decade :)

Well, kind of...

Up early because of the jetlag...

40 minutes passive muscle toning

Breakfast: 1 handful brazil nuts, a great source of selenium + 1 banana + 2 handfuls cherries

1 hour walk on the telephone

1 hour cycling on an empty stomach (before lunch)

Lunch: a vegetarian steak + 1 pupusa (a guatemalan corn/cheese flat bread) + 3 huge handsful cherries + 3 Calisson d'Aix (a provencal sugar coated marzipan delicacy)

Little recovery nap

1h15 walk on the telephone

Snack: 1 apple and 3 Calissons

15 minutes walk and 1hour full on spinning... a crazy class... compared to that, the Tour de France is a ride in the park! We finish exhausted but proud and most certainly lighter... you can almost see the melting of the overworked haunches.

Diner: a small turnip soup + 1/2 slice wholemeal bread + a huge mixed salad with fat free vinaigrette (a new recipe I am testing and is, for once, a tasty "light" option): roquette, sprouts + anchovies + slightly seared tuna + pear... and to finish a Calisson for a bit of sweetness.

This was a Calisson d'Aix and a sporty day :) What a great mix!

PS: if you want to get hold of this delightful Provencal treat outside of France go to the Bien Manger website.

An active day in Gold Country

The night was short as Nestle assigned himself hotel room security and can't stand anyone passing within 50 yard of the said room :)

Rather awful breakfast served in the hotel: sausages of non-descript content, 2 little bowls of fruit in syrup + 2 slices fruit bread with cream cheese... we are far from everything, so we can't be picky.

Off to Diggins Malakoff Canyon, an amazing man made park, fashioned with the Currier's knife? No! with high pressure water hoses like big Karchers to pulverise

entire mountain sides in order to find gold as fast as possible. We are literally alone in the park... not a sound... we come across bobcats (I thought they were nocturnal?) deers, Californian eagles... and off one of the lanes the old 1850 school that hasn't changed, a prison and a white church (well, a little less white now).

2 hours walk in the blazing sun in 35 degrees C in the shade... a little thought for the 49ers that were all dressed up and their wives in their leather booties and multiple layers of petty coats!

Now we head for Yuba River... a river with water running at swimming pool temperature... a true delight! Picnic on the river bank: one apple, organic (yes I found some even in this remote place) + 1/2 turkey and veg sandwich

Swim + a little walking on the river bank on huge boulders

No snack

Diner: 1 strawberry/apple smoothie + grilled bison steak with caramelised onions + steamed broccoli + soyonnaise/olive oil + a few cherries

4th July - We celebrate! in Gold Country

Well, not quite... rather than fan a giant BBQ and gorge ourselves with burgers all day dressed in blue, white and red, we all (including Nestle, our dog) set off for the Gold Country, more precisely to Nevada city.

No time to empty my heavy suitcases brought back yesterday from my European trip. I quickly packed another one, its quicker and much easier... I'll deal with all the rest on my return!

40 minutes passive muscle toning and 200 butt squeezes in the car.

Breakfast: green tea + strawberries + japanese biscuits (one of my indulgences) (not to worry, the biscuits are very thin :)

30 minutes walk on an empty stomach in Nevada City, a well preserved gold rush town (in 1849, the famous 49ers, that's where it come from)

Lunch at a terrasse, the only place we can eat with the dog: a chicken chinese salad with a huge bowl of green tea

(they got it all right with portions around here!)

1 hour walk in Nevada city and then Grass valley... in early 1849, there wasn't anything at all in this place... and within a few weeks, thousands of gold miners swooped down on these mountains where the summer heat is unbearable... many fortunes were made and many hard times too.

no snack

30 minutes walk
Diner at Grass valley with live music: barbecued swordfish and huge green salad + 1/2 toffee cheesecake + green tea.

Off to bed coachie!

California after a big fright on the plane and 2 hours in the cockpit :)

No post on this Blog for a long week for many reasons: a schedule packed more than ever with shoots that lasted 12 hours solid, back to back meetings all more important than the other... and the abscence of WiFi in my favorite hotel where it has taken days to get it up and running again.

My trip to Paris was "olympic" :) but full of great things for LeBootCamp!

After a false start from Charles De Gaulle airport (a leak in the hydraulic system -whatever that means- followed by an engine failure - I know what that means - and other little technical treats) we finally left with a 24h delay.

Now I am ready to celebrate the 4th July! What I will take home from this adventure is the pilots' 2 hour invitation to the cockpit... the crew was fantastic and took great care of us. That is more than I can say about the ground personnel, who were totally clueless about how to handle a plane load of distressed and delayed passengers!

Upon awaking, plenty of fluids to replenish my body dehydrated by the flights... green tea, delicious Assam tea, and plenty of water.

40 minutes passive muscle toning

1 hour accumulated walking

It is with joy that I come back to the Californian sun and its palm trees... a little cup white tea at a cafe's terrasse to catch some sun, nothing better to recover from jetlag.

a light diner at... 6pm (yes, I am feeling a bit jetlaged). on the menu: grilled scallops with fresh garlic and roasted asparagus and plenty of strawberries for pudding...et voila!

off to bed coachie!