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Originally Posted by Chele615
I like how my leader does it. We have our regular meeting...discussing the week's topic and whatever other people bring up. If you want to contribute, you do. If not, no big deal. Then at the end of the meeting, the leader has everyone clap in order to welcome new and returning members and then the new members can stay after the meeting for the information session about the program. No one's singled out or anything, but everyone's acknowledged if that makes sense.
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That sounds like my ideal group!
The fact that when I arrived at this second venue there was not even an ordinary welcome that most hosts would do at ANY gathering..just a "Hello, nice to see you!" would have sufficed. She just looked at me and said that she had recieved a phone call about me and to "look after me"! So apart from thw WI and recalculating my points and asking me if I understood how they worked...THAT was it!
When she presented a gold envelope to someone it was very short and to the point and another woman who had been a bit disgruntled at only losing a pound she handed her a tin of beans to show her that it was how much she had lost. When the woman went to respond she just cut her short and went into the weekly discourse.
I have had a response on another forum from a leader saying that they are not in the least bit interested in how much weight I have lost before joining WW and anyway the meeting is not about ME but about the group! That to me is rather odd as I consider the group is made up with lots of ME'S!...