Hungarian woman transforms her health and weight after alarming diagnosis change

A Hungarian woman sheds nearly 50kg after discovering her diabetes diagnosis, highlighting the impact of structured health plans over dieting fads and shedding light on social judgement around weight struggles.

A Hungarian woman who says doctors once told her to accept that she would never be slim again because of an underactive thyroid is now being presented by Bors as having shed nearly 50kg after a far more alarming diagnosis changed her habits for good. In the profile published on 7 September 2026, Pécsiné Bajcsy Bogi says the decisive moment came not with the thyroid problem itself, but when she learned three years ago, while living in Germany, that she had diabetes. That account differs from another Fanny magazine transformation story carried by Life.hu in April 2023, in which a different woman, Göttler Zsuzsi, said her wake-up call was an August 2019 warning that her test results showed the start of insulin resistance. (borsonline.origo.hu)

Bogi’s version of events is long and bruising. She says the first major gain came after the birth of her son, when 13kg arrived within six months, and that by September 2005 she weighed 101kg at a height of 180cm. A second pregnancy in 2010 added more. In the latest interview she says a further post-Covid setback brought an 8kg gain in just two weeks and left her at 123kg by 2021, struggling with stairs and even ordinary walks. She also describes why the diabetes diagnosis frightened her so badly: her father had the disease and, she says, suffered amputations after failing to manage it. That fear of sudden deterioration echoes another Fanny-linked story, told to Metropol by Lanczendorfer Emőke, who said her weight also changed sharply after the Covid period despite continuing to exercise and watch what she ate. (borsonline.origo.hu)

What makes the new Bors piece stand out is the way it joins several turning points into one arc. Bogi says she had spent years trying assorted diets and had managed to trim about 10kg overall, but that lasting progress only began when diabetes treatment, injections and a tightly controlled 160-180 gram carbohydrate plan were added to the picture. She says that when she restarted exercise she was still around 115kg and could do little beyond walking and using an exercise bike. Zsuzsi’s earlier account to Life.hu suggests a different pace and a different scale: in that case, a 160 gram carbohydrate plan built around wholemeal flour, sweetener and carefully chosen bread reportedly brought 14kg off in six months, with a further 10kg lost once exercise was added. (borsonline.origo.hu)

The exercise element in these stories is rarely left to chance. Life.hu said Zsuzsi sought out Gökler Kriszti in February 2020 so that training could be built up gradually with specialist help, rather than through ad hoc gym sessions. Gökler’s own website shows a public-facing coaching business centred on women’s exercise, pregnancy and post-partum support. A similar argument appears in Metropol’s profile of Emőke, where personal trainer Czanik Krisztián said thyroid patients should pay attention to water intake, iodine, regular exercise and, crucially, medical clearance before beginning a routine. Taken together, the stories present coaching less as vanity and more as a way of making movement manageable for people who feel unfit, ill or defeated. (life.hu)

That framing runs across other Hungarian makeover coverage too. Mindmegette, republishing another Fanny-originated story, said Fehérvári Tünde spent years cycling through miracle pills, teas and small 3kg or 4kg losses before regaining the weight, and only changed course after unexpectedly winning a 12-week body-shaping programme at a school charity ball. Bors struck a similar note in July 2024 with Zsebők Barbara, a sporty mother who said she noticed unusual fatigue and extra kilos before tests showed thyroid underactivity; after becoming pregnant and craving bread and pizza, she later lost 10kg in three months as she tried to regain her pre-pregnancy shape. The message in both cases was that structure, not improvisation, made the difference. (mindmegette.hu)

Not every transformation story in this publishing stream points towards stricter dieting, though. In March 2024 Bors profiled Jerkovics Boglárka, who said a fashionable, very low-carbohydrate, high-protein regime helped her slim down quickly but was followed by a 24kg rebound in three months, repeated binge-eating episodes and bulimia. The paper said those experiences later pushed her to study nutrition and start helping others, and Jerkovics now presents herself on her own site as a lifestyle and nutrition adviser. Her case is a useful counterweight to the cleaner redemption arc offered in Bogi’s newest interview: sometimes the promise of rapid control is itself part of the problem. (borsonline.hu)

For all the emphasis on kilos, diets and training plans, the sharpest line in Bogi’s latest telling may be about judgement. She says people whispered behind her back when she was heavier and that cruel remarks did not disappear after the weight came off. That sense of humiliation is visible elsewhere in the same media ecosystem, whether in Tünde’s account of hiding in loose clothes or in Jerkovics’s warning about what food fear can become. Read that way, the new Bors profile is not only about one woman’s size shrinking over four years. It is also about the social penalty attached to visible weight gain, and about how these highly personal health stories are repeatedly turned into public morality tales. (borsonline.origo.hu)