Hey mate. I can relate to your situation; ballooned beyond 30% bf and ~115kgs (about 250ish pounds) and felt like **** day-to-day. I can tell you that getting it off is so much harder than putting it on, especially for us blokes closing in on 40!
I'm making progress, but it's been an 18 month journey so far. I lost 15kgs, and have put on muscle, but I've still got a long way to go -- especially before I start even thinking about steroids.
If you want to take supplements to help, there are plenty of other natural options to help you along your way without resorting to the extremes of anabolics. Most importantly, though, you want to look at your routines and your diet first. Ensure you're getting enough quality sleep, controlling your stress levels, eating the right foods at the right serving sizes. Build a foundation of good habits and strong routines, and only then should you really start to look at fat burners or performance enhancers. You can't build a house on sand.
For me, I just started with protein powders and creatine + multivitamins and fish oil for general health. I'd take some magnesium and melatonin before bed and started with improving my sleep -- I'd stretch and meditate at night, minimise my screentime, and get to bed at the same time every night. This had a profound impact on how I felt.
I started meal prep so I had clean meals conveniently available, which helped immensely. I would slow cook chicken, boil some sweet potato and smash it with cinnamon and make a cottage pie; or I would slow cook beef cheeks and then just boil some wholemeal pasta and mix it through before serving. High quality beef mince with kidney beans and mexican seasoning, which I'd do with single serve microwave brown rice and top with some avocado or natural yoghurt. Even my chocolate protein shakes with wholewheat oats, bluberries and a tsp of PB. All easily accessed and set me up for a day of good choices. Take away the decisions so you don't get lazy and do something easier and less healthy because you can't be bothered. Just keep grinding away.
I dropped my alcohol consumption gradually from drinking every day to the occassional zero carb/sugar beer every few weeks at most. I'd aim for a minimum of 10k steps a day -- this was big for me as I work at a desk, it started with a few shorter walks and increased to hour long walks where I could do 10k at once.
I feel like a different man to what I did a year ago, and I am looking like one too. But it's only now, after 18 months of grinding away at my improved routine, and hours of reading on this forum, have I started adding in things like Follidrone, Reduce XT and M-test which have taken my training to another level. I feel like I can appreciate them more because 1) part of me believes I earned them, and 2) I'm in a much better position to take advantage of them because I won't piss it away once the bottle is finished by returning back to old habits.
I know it's probably what you don't want to hear, but there's no quick fix, especially as a 37 year old with a spare tyre! It's hard work, a strong will, and an unrelenting desire to be better than you were the day before that will get you results. Get a trainer who is in it for the long haul and will help you with every step (and they won't always be forward steps, either. Sometimes you take one step back, but then take three forward. That's OK, just keep moving!). Surround yourself with positive influences, work on your mindset, and set yourself mini goals. Take some progress pics and measurements now -- record a baseline. Do it every 4 weeks and compare. You'll be surprised at how much you're changing even when you don't think you are.
You got this!
I'm not new to the gym and I know how to diet and cut weight when I need to I'm definitely just new to these kinds of supplements and stuff. I'll ask if he would like to chime in. Now that I'm thinking about it he may have mentioned something about something that I should do after this cycle if I decide to continue.
