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Discover the best weight loss drinks, made with real ingredients at home, to activate the metabolism and curb hunger.
Everywhere I look, companies are coming out with new weight loss drinks. Everyone thinks they’ve found the perfect formula, perfect ingredients and perfect “it” factor when it comes to the best drinks for weight loss.
Yet what if I told you that you don’t need some supplement with ingredients from a specific tree on a specific island in the middle of the ocean just to lose weight? I’ve got seven of the best drinks for weight loss to share today.
These detox drinks are simple, delicious and full of only the good stuff!
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Weight Loss Drinks
Each of the drinks below is made with whole food, plant-based ingredients designed to help the body naturally. These drinks aren’t magic, and shouldn’t be the only thing you consume in a day, yet they can help promote health and wellness.
Tips for Best Results
My teeth are pretty sensitive so I drink the apple cider vinegar drinks with lemon through a straw to protect my enamel. The apple cider vinegar drinks sometimes go down better if they are super cold or heated up like a spiced cider. Though drinking them at room temperature is fine, you may not want to. That’s totally okay.
Turmeric stains easily, so make sure you have a stainable surface or cup when consuming any drink with this anti-inflammatory ingredient. Fresh, whole roots will have loads more natural and healing properties than their ground versions, so always look for fresh if possible. I actually buy ginger at Costco and chop up a whole bunch at once, then freeze it in single portions. This way I’ve got fresh, real ginger on hand whenever I need it.
Detox Drink Ingredients
While I don’t recommend drinking only these beverages throughout the day, they are each designed to help promote weight loss when included in a balanced diet. Each drink contains ingredients that do some pretty cool stuff in the body:
- Apple cider vinegar: Contains acetic acid, which helps stall weight gain and decreases fat in the belly and liver.
- Ginger: Studies show this root effectively reduces fat, as well as increases HDL (good cholesterol) in the body.
- Plant-based protein: According to the American Dietetic Association, a well-balanced vegetarian/vegan diet provide more than adequate protein to prevent and treat certain diseases. I’ve actually created an organic, plant-based protein boost for green smoothies. It adds 10 grams of clean protein to each smoothie.
- Lemon: Loaded with antioxidants to promote weight loss. You can also add it to water to create a simple weight loss drink.
- Cinnamon: Also full of antioxidants. Cinnamon has powerful anti-inflammatory effects as well.
- Turmeric: Curcumin is the active ingredient in turmeric, and has anti-inflammatory and antioxidants as well. If inflammation is a serious concern, then I suggest taking this in supplement form. Ground turmeric has a smaller amount of curcumin.
Weight Loss Drinks FAQs
These weight loss drinks promote healthy metabolism which when combined with proper sleep, exercise and nutrition can support losing excess fat.
All of the drinks on my weight loss drinks list include natural ingredients that have detoxifying properties. Yet did you know that the body has entire systems dedicated to detoxing naturally? While these ingredients can help your body do what it does naturally, you can also consume other foods that will help you cleanse.
There is so much more to losing weight than a ‘quick fix.’ While my cleanse programs often result in weight loss naturally, they are just the start of a healthier lifestyle. You can definitely incorporate some of the weight loss drinks from my list into your daily habits, but if you really want to lose weight then you need to use these drinks as part of a whole healthy diet, exercise, sleep and de-stress lifestyle.
A Healthier Way to Detox + Lose Weight
Many of the best drinks for weight loss found above were created for my Seasonal Cleanses. I’ve created 21-Day and Plant-Based Cleanses that use only whole food, and plant-based ingredients to bring you smoothies, snacks, meals, and cleansing detox drinks, all carefully curated to promote a healthier you.
Cleansing doesn’t have to consist of inedible, expensive supplements/drinks that make you feel terrible! It can be full of delicious, cleansing food, no weird powders and lasting results for the body and mind.
More Delicious Detox Recipes
If the concept of using real, whole food to meet your health goals sounds appealing to you, then check out a few of these free meal plans I’ve created. They are all designed to help you eat more plants and use the natural healing properties of food to heal your body inside and out.
- Plant-Based Meal Plan
- Daniel Fast Meal Plan
- Vegetarian Meal Plan
- Weight Loss Meal Plan
- Vegan Meal Plan
- Mediterranean-Inspired Meal Plan
Which one of theses do you want to sip on first? Drop a comment and let me know!
Yummy this sounds so good. I’m going to incude it in my change of diet next week. I’m going to be having a smoothie everyday too so this site will be very helpful! Xx
Natalie,
Have you joined our 30-day challenge? We’re just getting started on Week-3!
https://simplegreensmoothies.com/challenge
Cheers 🙂
Hello,
This sounds fabulous! I don’t have any cayenne pepper though; what would you recommend I use instead? Thanks!
Hi Jess,
Try substituting the cayenne pepper for paprika or red pepper flakes.
we dont have almond butter here where i live, could i use any other nut butter ? 🙂
Hi Alexandra,
Feel free to replace the almond butter with any other nut butter 🙂
I love this idea, but my daughter is allergic to almond milk can I use coconut milk instead?
Hi Kim,
Yes, feel free to substitute the almond milk for any other type of milk, we especially love coconut milk!
Here’s how we make coconut milk at home…
https://simplegreensmoothies.com/how-to-make-coconut-milk
Cheers 🙂
Thank you for the recipe. Almond milk is a new thing for me.
Vaishali,
We hope you enjoyed the recipe!
Delicious!!!! I may have put too much cayenne cuz it’s a little hot. I’m trying to wean myself off of coffee. I will be trying this in the mornings.
Great idea! 🙂
Hi! I didn’t have any maple syrup to use for this so when I was in the store I saw Pure Maple Syrup and then the good old Pancake Syrup … Pure was about $8 and had SO MUCH SUGAR in it. And the Pancake syrup was super cheap still with so much sugar in it. Now don’t get me wrong I have a sweet tooth but I’d like this drink to be a bit more healthy. Which one do you recommend for this recipe or is there something else with less sugar that I could use in it’s place for this recipe? Thanks in advance!
Hi Kelly.
Thanks for reaching out. The Pure Maple Syrup is natural accruing sugar in the syrup, but the cheap pancake syrup is most likely fake, processed sugar.
Ok thank you for the info I appreciate it! If I decide to skip the pure maple syrup do you think honey would taste right in it’s place for this recipe or no?
Yes, Honey would be another great option. 🙂
Great Article. Thanks for the almond milk
Hey Monica! So happy to hear!
Thanks for this great article and new recipe.
Cheers!
Do you just throw out the stuff in strainer or can it be used ? Hate throwing stuff out
Feel free to make almond meal or almond flour of of it. https://simplegreensmoothies.com/diy-almond-milk
I love this, I just blended all the ingredients first then put it on stove. It has been cold and I have been drinking it since I don’t do coffee.
Awesome! Glad you are enjoying this recipe. 🙂
Thank you, I became successful of making spiced almond milk.
Wonderful!
Do you recommend a certain brand of almond and coconut milk?
Hey Tiffany.
We like almond milk and coconut milk in the cartons that are free of additives, stabilizers, and gums. Here is a our DIY coconut milk: https://simplegreensmoothies.com/how-to-make-coconut-milk
Would a hand held blender work well to froth this drink up? I only have a magic bullet so there is no way to allow for steam to escape during blending (have lost the lid to the little blender attachment in a house move).
Yes, I think a hand held blender would word great! Cheers. 🙂
Hi this sounds great. I have never seen almond butter in shops here (Ireland) what could I use instead? Only thing I can think of is coconut oil. Thanks
If you have raw almonds you can put them into your blender with some coconut oil, blend and then you have homemade almond butter. 🙂
Claire you could try the t’internet for your hard to source products. I get most of mine via Amazon.co.uk. They are usually much cheaper than shops as well.
Really good and warming. Chai-like seasonings, I thought. The almond butter added nice substance. I didn’t have maple syrup so subbed honey.
Good think. I love Chai too!
So yummy!! Perfect for these cold New England nights 🙂 I’m not a huge maple fan so I used some stevia instead. This is definitely going to make these frigid nights a little warmer.
Stay warm in New England. 🙂