Disclaimer : just posting this for the sake of discussion, not recommending the use, especially not in your condition.
There's actually a lot of stuff that's known to work for weight loss but it's illegal and dangerous.
There's the stimulants route which suppresses hunger and raises your metabolic rate. They used to put this shit in supplements and it worked but some people have died from this and long term health side effects are probably not good.
There's stuff like DNP which screws up your body's ability to convert food into energy and turns it in to heat - you feel like shit and you can die from cooking yourself - it's probably the most effective thing and doesn't even require restricting calories. This is the only thing that would be what some people hope for as the magic bullet transformation (maybe outside of surgical/lypo) - but the chances of you dying are high and you're completely useless while on it.
There's the steroids route - the immediate side effects aren't life threatening but there are a lot of complications (hair loss, gyno, acne) and potential long term health damage (cardiovascular, can permanently screw up your endocrine system and force you on lifelong TRT). With steroids you can lose fat while gaining muscle, depending on the compound/dosage even when eating a surplus, they rewire your metabolism. There was a study where giving 500mg test a week for 3 months to a control group that did no exercise outperformed the muscle development of a group of untrained men who followed a weightlifting program for 3 months (and untrained people have the strongest response to training). Steroids take a long time and give you medium effects (nothing like DNP for example), eg. the progress you would make with steroids and training in 3 months would be like the progress you made in 6 months if you were just training. But if you're older TRT is definitely worth looking into.
There's actually a lot of stuff that's known to work for weight loss but it's illegal and dangerous.
There's the stimulants route which suppresses hunger and raises your metabolic rate. They used to put this shit in supplements and it worked but some people have died from this and long term health side effects are probably not good.
There's stuff like DNP which screws up your body's ability to convert food into energy and turns it in to heat - you feel like shit and you can die from cooking yourself - it's probably the most effective thing and doesn't even require restricting calories. This is the only thing that would be what some people hope for as the magic bullet transformation (maybe outside of surgical/lypo) - but the chances of you dying are high and you're completely useless while on it.
There's the steroids route - the immediate side effects aren't life threatening but there are a lot of complications (hair loss, gyno, acne) and potential long term health damage (cardiovascular, can permanently screw up your endocrine system and force you on lifelong TRT). With steroids you can lose fat while gaining muscle, depending on the compound/dosage even when eating a surplus, they rewire your metabolism. There was a study where giving 500mg test a week for 3 months to a control group that did no exercise outperformed the muscle development of a group of untrained men who followed a weightlifting program for 3 months (and untrained people have the strongest response to training). Steroids take a long time and give you medium effects (nothing like DNP for example), eg. the progress you would make with steroids and training in 3 months would be like the progress you made in 6 months if you were just training. But if you're older TRT is definitely worth looking into.