Starlight,
I totally agree with you. As a Weight Watchers Leader you have to be a gold Member, so if my Leader was overweight I would seriously question the long term success of the diet in question. It would definately put me off! I want to know Weight Watchers is the 'miracle' that I need! And once I get to goal I want to know that maintaining is fairly straightforward and of course achievable! But if The leader was Overweight due to a medical reason, then that would be different.
A bit off topic, but like ScattyKookie said it also puts me off if the leader has only lost a stone. I remember going to a Slimming World class and the leader was tiny, she said she had lost 1 stone with SW and showed us her before and after pictures. You couldn't really see a difference. And she said she was a healthy BMI before she lost the weight. It sort of makes you feel they don't understand what you are going through. I would prefer a leader who could relate to me.