Usually they schedule half an hour to weigh everyone (in case you're worried, it's not announced...once you're weighed you go into the meeting area and those still waiting are just in line chatting), then half an hour for the meeting. If you go *right* at the end of the first half hour, you can get weighed and go right into the meeting, so 35 minutes. And like someone mentioned, you can just weigh and go home...but the meetings were always beneficial for me, and still very beneficial for hubby.