https://www.facebook.com/452192747984942/

Jo Randall Health Coaching

Home
United Kingdom
York
Jo Randall Health Coaching

Call Contact the business

Helping professionals regain control over their health I help busy people break free from stress, fatigue and unhealthy habits.

Through personalised coaching, together we will transform your health journey into one of vitality, resilience and joy while preventing you from sleepwalking into chronic conditions and enabling you to thrive in work and life.

04/11/2026

Tonight’s dinner was the crusts off someone else’s plate, eaten standing at the sink while you rang your dad to check he had taken his tablets.
You told yourself you would have something proper later, and then it was 9.40pm, the kitchen was finally quiet, and the biscuit tin did what biscuit tins always do at 9.40pm.
That evening raid makes complete sense once you look at the rest of the day. When you run on scraps and adrenaline from lunchtime onwards, your blood sugar dips, your body asks loudly for quick fuel, and the request arrives at the exact moment your defences are lowest. Most of the women I coach call this a discipline problem, and when we look at their day together, nearly all of them have eaten almost nothing proper since breakfast.
The smallest fix I know is one plate, sitting down, before you start on everyone else’s evening: some protein, something green and ten minutes in a chair, even if the chair is in the car outside your mum’s house. It feels selfish for about a week, and then the 9.40pm tin starts losing its grip.
If you are the one feeding everybody except yourself, tell me what your evenings look like. Send me a message or drop it in the comments.

02/11/2026

Her first email of the day went at 5.12am, sent from the edge of the bath so it would be waiting in the client’s inbox before they woke, and when we first spoke she described this as being organised.
She was a senior associate in a property team, the one everyone relied on to hold a wobbly chain together, and she came to me because she was gaining weight around her middle and waking at 3am most nights. She ate well by most standards and walked the dog every evening, so on paper she was doing everything right, which was exactly what made it so maddening.
We began with the 5.12am email. A body that starts every day braced for a problem tends to stay braced, and long stretches of stress hormones make blood sugar harder to manage, sleep lighter and the middle of the body the first place to store the difference. Her first change was a rule that nothing left her outbox before 7.30am, scheduled sending included, which she was convinced would cost her a client. It cost her nothing, and within a month the 3am wake-ups had dropped to once or twice a week.
I spent thirty years in conveyancing, so I know how reasonable that early email feels at the time. If your working day starts before your body has had a chance to, send me a message and we will book a complimentary 45-minute call before Christmas takes over your diary.

30/10/2026

I retrained at 50-something because two diagnoses in two years is a memo you do not ignore.(remember those?!)

Type 2 diabetes arrived in 2021 and cancer followed in 2022, by which point I had spent three decades reading the small print in other people’s transactions without once reading my own. When I looked for a way to work in lifestyle medicine, I chose a qualification created by two doctors, the Prescribing Lifestyle Medicine course, because the evidence for what I wanted to do sits most comfortably alongside medicine. A coach who understands where the clinical team’s role ends, and who knows when to say “please ask your GP about that”, is worth more than one with a longer list of supplements.

The most useful question I took from all of it works for anybody: what would have to be true about your week for this habit to survive a bad Tuesday? It sounds simple, and it quietly rules out most of the plans we make on a Sunday night with good intentions and a clear diary.

Some of you will read that and recognise a week with no spare room in it, perhaps in a firm where the work always wins. If that is you, send me a message and we can talk it through in a complimentary 45-minute coaching session.

28/10/2026

She took our first call from the car park of her mother’s care home, with the engine off and a cold coffee in the cup holder, because it was the only twenty minutes of her week that nobody else had claimed.

She had come to me about her energy, and in the first fortnight we hardly mentioned food. The first change was a handful of almonds and a piece of fruit eaten in that car before she went in, in place of arriving on an empty stomach and leaving with a vending machine bar. It looked far too small to matter, and by the third week she told me the visits no longer flattened her for the rest of the day.

Midlife energy often drains in the gaps between obligations, when nobody is watching, which makes those gaps the best place to start. A small, dull routine at the point of greatest drain tends to do more than a brand new regime that needs a clear fortnight to begin.

If you are the person holding everyone else’s week together, I would love to hear where your energy drains first. Send me a message or tell me in the comments.

*Permission has been given to share this story.

26/10/2026

Your GP has ten minutes. Lifestyle change happens in the other 10,070 minutes of your week.

The ten-minute figure comes from a 2017 BMJ Open review of consultation lengths across 67 countries, which put the average UK appointment at around that mark. It is long enough to check a blood pressure reading, discuss a result and write a prescription, with very little room left to ask what your working week actually looks like.

For the lawyers, surveyors and agents I used to work alongside, that week was usually the whole story: back-to-back meetings, lunch eaten at the keyboard, and sleep rationed to whatever the evening inbox allowed.

Most workplaces respond with information, a wellbeing day, a webinar or a helpline number, and then wonder why little changes in a room full of clever people who already know what they ought to do.

What shifts behaviour tends to be something small enough to fit around the job, repeated until it stops needing willpower and supported by someone who understands the pressure from the inside.

Lifestyle medicine gives that a sturdy frame (food, movement, sleep, stress, connection and everyday habits), and coaching is where the frame meets a real Tuesday afternoon, always alongside your GP and never instead of them.

As I finish a Prescribing Lifestyle Medicine qualification with Health Coaches Academy and Practice Unbound, I keep coming back to that arithmetic.

If you lead a team, how many of those 10,070 minutes does your current wellbeing support actually reach?

23/10/2026

On Sunday morning the clocks go back, and most of us will treat the extra hour as a bonus lie-in.

The body clock runs on light rather than on the wall clock. For the first week or so the light arrives an hour earlier than your body expects and the evenings close in by teatime, which can show up as early waking, an afternoon dip and a bigger appetite after dark.

The simplest fix I know is ten minutes outdoors within an hour of waking, even on a grey day, and keeping bedtime where it was for the first few nights rather than banking the hour.

Morning light is one of the strongest signals the body clock receives, and it costs nothing. If your week starts a bit flat on Monday, that may have less to do with workload than you think. What do you do differently in the week after the clocks change?

21/10/2026

A client said something to me recently that I hear in some form almost every week: “I am doing everything right and I am still shattered by three o’clock.”

Her breakfast was toast, which she thought was the sensible choice. Her water, bedtime and routine were all in good order.

When we looked at her day together, the gap sat in her first meal and her lunch hour. A breakfast with some protein in it and ten minutes outside after lunch changed her afternoons within 2 weeks.

Her willpower stayed exactly where it was. What changed was what she put into her morning and early afternoon. The 3pm slump is information about your day, and it often has a very fixable answer.

What does yours usually ask for: food, a walk or sleep?

19/10/2026

The HSE estimates that 22.1 million working days were lost in Great Britain in 2024/25 to work-related stress, depression or anxiety, which is more than half of the 40.1 million days lost to all work-related ill health.

Behind each of those days is someone who sat through a Tuesday afternoon meeting on four hours’ sleep and a sandwich eaten over a keyboard, who knew something needed to change, and who had no spare capacity to work out what.

Most firms respond with a helpline, an app or a lunchtime webinar. All three ask people to find time and energy at exactly the point in the week when they have the least of either, which probably explains why uptake tends to stay low.

Lifestyle medicine starts from a different place. Sleep, food, movement, stress recovery, connection and daily habits decide how well anyone copes with pressure, and they can be supported inside the working week, in person and in confidence, in conversations short enough to fit between meetings.

I spent thirty years in a profession where pressure came with the job description, so I am curious what firms in law and property would change first if they started from the foundations rather than the helpline. What would it be at yours?

16/10/2026

After 30 years of being the person others came to for answers, I am enjoying being very bad at the piano!

I am also working on my French and between the two I have been reminded what being a beginner feels like; the slow start, the mistakes you would rather nobody heard and the small improvement that only shows up when you look back a month. Both have survived because I made them small enough to do on a tired day and I have yet to find a better test of whether a habit will last.

Many of the people I work with have not been a beginner at anything for years. They expect a new routine to arrive fully formed and drop it the first time it wobbles. when a wobble in week 2 is entirely normal.

When did you last let yourself be bad at something?

14/10/2026

Midlife weight gain has often more to do with your sleep than with your willpower.

Sleep is the only pillar that improves all the others while you are unconscious so the 11pm mental run-through of tomorrow's inbox costs more than it seems to.

If your head fills with tomorrow the moment the light goes off, there is a small experiment with some research behind it. In a 2018 sleep-lab study at Baylor University, 57 young adults spent 5 minutes before bed either writing a list of what they needed to do next or writing about what they had already done and the list writers fell asleep faster. It was a small study of healthy young people so I see it as a promising nudge worth testing on yourself and it fits what many of my clients describe: a mind that will not settle usually has unfinished business it is trying to hold onto.

Tonight, take a paper notebook (a mobile will pull you back into the inbox), write tomorrow's top three and anything else that is buzzing round your head, then close it and leave it in the kitchen or on your desk. Do this every evening and give it a week before you judge it because the first couple of nights can feel like an extra job.

Try it and tell me what changes!

Address

York

Telephone

+447925962017

Website

facebook.com

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Jo Randall Health Coaching posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.