Everything can make you lose weight unless you are consuming more than you burn.
The goal is to maintain a variety of nutrients therefore your body can execute all it's processes without a struggle.
Try to eat small and 5 times a day.
Since you now have excess in lipids, try to eat very healthy - vegetables, fish, clean meat, mushrooms -. Also, do not eat too much carbohydrates (pasta, sugars, bread) since you want to make your body work that lipid for power.
Try to also make small exercises, also running for like 10 minutes is enough.
P.S no they don't work, and if they work it's just coincidence.