Vent: Sick of fatties scoffing at yoga UGH. So I'm an avid "yogi," and I have been attending studio classes for over two years now. When I started, I was overweight (27ish bmi). Now I'm fit. I also do the spinning/cycling classes at the studio, AND I have cleaned up my diet. Still let myself have the occasional treat, but I try to eat mostly healthy foods. No point in exercising if you're going to eat crap. My bmi now is 17. Yes that is under but not by too much, I'm still 'healthy' looking.  One thing that aggravates me is the fatty fats that make yoga seem like a joke, either by pretending that they can do it or by telling me that it's "not real exercise". These are the people that think yoga is just stretching. They don't understand that there are MANY different types of yoga, and that to have a regular vinyasa practice it takes strength and dedication. You can't just do a fucking tree pose and expect to lose weight or build muscle. Like all other strength training, you need to do reps, that's why there's 50x sun salutations in most classes. I see so many pics on tumblr of fatties doing "yoga" incorrectly, with terrible alignment. Guess what? It's not chair pose if you have to USE AN ACTUAL CHAIR. I've even had fat yoga instructors that just walked around the room telling us what to do instead of SHOWING us. That makes me wonder how they got through teacher training. Any actual "yogis" (i hate that term lol) I meet are lean, fit, flexible. They can hold their bodies up with one hand.  So I went to get an ID card redistributed. I asked the woman at the counter (a big old fatty) if I could have a different picture taken, since I look completely different from the person on my ID. I'm at least 25lbs heavier in the picture on my card. She told me that I'd have to wait until the card expires, which I understood. And then she asked me how I lost "so much weight," giving me that envious up-and-down from behind her venti ass starbeetus cup. I said, "Oh, you know, diet and exercise. A lot of yoga!" And she LAUGHED. Straight up laughed at me. This fat bitch that probably couldn't do 90% of BASIC yoga poses was laughing at my choice in fitness.  "Wow! What kind of yoga are YOU doing?" Implying that I must be a freak of nature or something to have actually gotten fit from yoga. I wanted to inform her that most people at my studio are fit, and the fat ones that come in for the introductory pass (30 unlimited days!) give up after one or two classes. Because they are lazy fat fucks. But instead I just listed all the different types of yoga I do, "hot, vinyasa, power, ashtanga, yin (this one IS just stretching/flex), hatha..." and walked away from her confused obese face. I hope this bitch has to see thousands of people that used to be fat fucks but have taken control of their lives, unlike her. Working in a damn ID centre, I bet her life is so fucking exciting. Sorry if this wasn't exactly fat-hate but I need to vent about it :/ I take yoga seriously. I get upset with myself when I miss a couple days. I sweat my ass off. My friend has been doing it for the same amount of time as me but she's more committed and she's now RIPPED- abs, biceps, toned quads. Fatties have no fucking idea. I might make an album later called "fatty yoga" and I'll post a side-by-side comparison of a fatty doing a pose WRONG, and me doing it RIGHT. Grr.