I reckon it has a lot to do with the Consultant, and how she can get information out of the members, when she's going through the weightlosses or stayed the sames or gains ..... some manage to keep the conversation side going really well, while others might not be able to do this very well ..... My Consultant really gets us involved, and we put our tuppence worth in when someone asks questions, or has a wee moan about their Syns or whatever! My Consultant often goes through the items in the Slimmer of the Week basket and gets a discussion going on what we could use the contents for, she sometimes divides the group into two and gets us to keep scores, awarding points for weightloss, say 10 points for 1 pound, 5 for half a pound, we get 5 points if we've had a gain, or stayed the same but have stayed to Image Therapy .... that sort of thing, Consultant often gets us talking around the Slimming World password too, eg if it was "skipping" that week, she'll ask if anyone likes to skip .... that'll lead onto all sorts of body magic chat within the group ........ sometimes the Consultant will hold a taster evening at group and the week before we'll chat about what to bring, go through a couple of simple recipe ideas, and we'll decide what we'll bring in the following week .... Variety is the spice of life ..... We have a cuppa or juice, sometimes the Consultant will bring in a low Syn snack for us to try with our drinks, which will lead onto conversation, we'll flick through some of the literature on the centre interest table, reading about success stories from the local papers or in the SW magazines, We'll check out the sample SW recipe books, Check up on Syns from the SW Directory ....... No two weeks are the same at my present group ........ it all adds to the fun of the evening ..... it's a real social night out for me!
I've been to a few different groups, run by different Consultants and they're all slightly different, but on the whole, the Consultant covers most of the things I've mentioned from time to time ..... funny thing that I've found is that a lot of people don't stay for the full session, so don't actually know what goes on .... maybe they've stayed once at the beginning and felt they didn't get much out of it so then they don't bother staying again ..... ? I've always stayed for the full session (except on really rare occasions when I've had to look after the grandkids, and they've been playing up, or whatever) I reckon that when you pay the £4.95 per week, you ought to get your money's worth! lol