Belfie, I used to be a WW leader and even I would run a mile from a meeting like that! When we had a new person join, after they weighed in I would ask if they minded staying behind a few minutes to give them a run through on the program and how it worked. If they didn't that was fine, but I always made the effort to help them as it is really bewildering at first when you have to put a point value to everything you eat. The thing with meetings though is back when I did it (so not sure if the leaders still have to do it the same) we had to follow a schedule for that weeks topic - anywhere you went all meetings were about the same thing and you had a folder with all the years worth of meeting stuff in it so it was all preprared and scripted, so it sounds like that leader was just following it to a T , whereas I never did ROFL. I would always get everyone to just sit and we'd just chat about how our week was, shared in the excitement of losses and helped boost those who had a gain with positive thoughts etc and it was lovely and I think more motivating as it was like a debrief of how you were going. Some of the meeting topics were terrible if you stuck to it and felt too rigid and just plain cold kwim? But it's great to hear you are enjoying the online program.