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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!
All I can say is Hello Spiced Almond Milk and Goodbye
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Hi Rhonda,
YAY! Thank you so much for sharing your love for our Spiced Almond Milk recipe! Cheers to health + happiness! 🙂
Delicious! I made it for my husband and he really enjoyed it! It’s a keeper! thanks for sharing the recipe.:)
Hi Eileen,
Wahoo! So happy to hear you + your husband enjoyed our Spiced Almond Milk recipe! Looking for more warm healthy drink options? Check out our Hot Chocolate recipe…
https://simplegreensmoothies.com/homemade-hot-chocolate
Well ofcourse im going to try this.. It sounds yummmieee…
Hi Lizz,
YAY! Reach back out + let us know what you think! 🙂
Hi guys, this recipe looks great. Would it still be as good if I subbed out the almond milk for soy milk?
Hi Susannah,
We personally try to avoid high amounts of soy, and reach for plant-based milks like almond, coconut, or rice milk! It’s all about finding what’s right for you + your body.
Learn more about our favorite plant-based milk options here…
https://simplegreensmoothies.com/dairy-free-smoothies
Hey can I make it without the maple syrup or sub stevia for it? Trying to stop using sugar 😉 Thanks Carmella
Hi Carmella,
Of course! Our recipes are here to inspire you, please don’t feel like you need to follow them to a T.
Cheers 🙂
Thanks for the yummy recipes! Do you have any recommendations on “clean” almond milk and coconut milk? I often see ingredients such as guar gum or xanthan gum or carageenan listed on the labels of the unsweetened ones.
Hi Denise,
Looking for clean almond + coconut milk free of stabilizers or additives? Try making your own! Check out our recipes here…
https://simplegreensmoothies.com/how-to-make-coconut-milk
https://simplegreensmoothies.com/diy-almond-milk
Whole Foods makes a “cleaner” almond milk– but not in the refrigerator area. Go to the isle where they have all other milks — gold box.
It’s 32 degrees tonite in Detroit, and this drink is making me warm up fast. This is very simple and tasty. Keep up the good work ladies!
Hi Meaninc,
Happy to hear our Spiced Almond Milk recipe is keeping you warm tonight! It’s my go-to during chilly winters! 🙂
OMG!! I was so hungry and it is late..:( so I googled low-fat healthy late night snack…and I found this recipe!
I only had almond unsweetened vanilla milk. So I added, ginger, cinnamon and half a teaspoon of maple syrup…hmmmm next time I will add nutmeg
Thank you!!!!!
Hi Bukola,
Yay! We’re so happy you found us in this busy internet world + enjoyed our Spiced Almond Milk recipe. Thank you so much for reaching out + letting us know!
Is there a way to make this in a blendtec instead of the stovetop? Love this drink!
Hi Susie,
Yes! Use the soup option on your Blendtec to warm your Spiced Almond Milk! 🙂
Thanks! Trying it tonight!
Okay, tried and the flavor was incredible. The temperature wasn’t quite warm enough so I after hearing the milk first it was perfection.
YAY! So happy you enjoyed it! 🙂
I’m not sure what I was expecting. I WANTED this drink to be good, but I wasn’t sure how it’d turn out. Oh man! It is so good! I dumped it in my Bledtec for a bit and the resulting frothiness was so delicious. I added a little cardamom in mine just cause 🙂 This will probably be a nightly thing…
Hi Lori,
Yay! We’re so happy to hear you loved our Spiced Almond Milk recipe. It’s the perfect ending to any day. I love curling up on the couch with a mug of Spiced Almond Milk each night, especially once it gets chilly.
Cheers 🙂
My daughter and I just made this. We used honey instead of syrup, yummmmm!!
Mmm that sounds delicious Randi! Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
a pinch of nutmeg also makes a nice addition.
Yes it does! Great suggestion, Jennifer! 🙂
Hi. this recipe sounds great but I’m allergic to nuts so would use coconut milk instead of almond milk but what could I use instead of nut butter??
Hi Karen,
Mmm…creamy coconut milk makes a great replacement for almond milk. You can always leave the almond butter out due to your allergies, or one of my favorite homemade non-nut butters is pumpkin seed butter! Its best benefits include a ton of protein (more than peanut butter), fiber, potassium, and beta-carotene, a nutrient associated with boosting the immune system.
Not going to lie I was a little hesitant going into this, but I keep seeing it on my instagram feed and was craving something along the lines of a coffee dessert and decided to finally give it a try, and I’m in love! I did substitute cayenne pepper with paprika but delicious nonetheless 🙂
Rachel, that’s awesome to hear!! 🙂
Hi there, thanks for this delicious and warm recipe! I’m using a variation of it this morning. Didn’t have nut butters on hand, so I used psyllium fibre cereal (ground) to up my fibre intake. I blended all ingredients cold then heated on the stovetop. With the cereal in there absorbing liquid, the texture changed. It’s quite nice – something between a thick smoothie and a loose porridge. My 21 month old and I just finished, and we loved the taste of this spiced almond milk!
Hi Charlotte,
That sounds delicious! Thank you so much for sharing! 🙂
Lovely relaxing bedtime drink, my young kids say they like it better than hot chocolate. Just a tiny pinch of Cayenne Pepper for them and an extra pinch for me.
Hi Catherine,
So excited to hear you and your kids are enjoying our Spiced Almond Milk recipe! It does make the perfect drink before bed!
Cheers 🙂