15 Best DIY Weight Loss Drinks Recipes With Images

Want to lose some weight? Try these low-calorie and high-fiber weight loss drinks to get a slim body.

Losing weight by drinks is a very cheap and healthiest way to get a slim body. It’s the best way to boost your metabolism, improve digestion and enhance fat burning mechanism.

Incorporating these weight loss detox drinks in your fitness regime can kick-start your fat burning rate.

What are the Weight Loss Drinks?

These are the healthiest low-calorie and high-fiber drinks that help to trim your belly fat fast by detoxing your body.

Such drinks are not available in stores, it’s a DIY recipe that you need to prepare at home. The ingredients of these weight loss drinks are easily available in the market.

For the greatest benefits, you can add them to your daily diet. Along with weight loss, these drinks also help you get clear and glowing skin naturally.

But remember, to add them with your little cardio and exercise schedule to achieve its maximum benefits.

No drugs and supplements can beat these weight loss drinks.

Does Weight Loss Drinks Works? Health Benefits of Detox Drinks

Yes, it works amazing. Many nutritionist and fitness experts suggest drinking detox drinks, green smoothies, green juice, and an efficient amount of water for fast weight loss.

These healthy drinks aren’t just alternatives to water or sugary beverages but nutritious and delicious too.

It does not only hydrate your body but also boost your metabolism, improve blood circulation, detoxify your body, remove harmful toxins, improve digestion and upgrade your fat-burning mechanism.

But make sure to add them before or after your fat-burning workout session OR as water alternatives for effective results.

Know some amazing health benefits of these weight loss drinks that will encourage you to start them from today.

1. Hydrate Your Body

Hydration is very important for your body to function properly. And these weight loss drinks serve best to complete your hydration level.

So, if you don’t like to drink plain boring water, then replace your water with these delicious detox water recipes to complete your water needs. They also act as an instant energy booster.

2. Remove Toxins From Body

Daily we are consuming thousands of pollutants, dust particles, pesticides, and chemicals that get stored in our body during breathing and affect our immune system badly.

To remove these toxins out, it’s very necessary to detoxify your body. These weight loss drinks work effectively to cleanse your body internally out.

3. Curb Cravings

These weight loss drinks help to curb your sweet cravings and control your unnecessary calories.

4. Improve Digestion

These low-calorie drinks improve your digestion while boosting your metabolism. They lead to healthy absorption of nutrients and detoxifies your stomach fast.

5. Prevent Bloating

These drinks help to flush out sodium from your body and reduce bloating that occurs due to stomach discomfort.

Best Weight Loss Drinks With Recipes

You can easily prepare these delicious weight loss drinks at home so you don’t get bored with a single drink during your entire weight loss program.

Here we are dividing the whole recipe section in 5 categories –

A. Detox Drinks Recipes

B. Green Drinks Recipes

C. Detox Coffee & Tea Recipes

D. Detox Juice Recipes

E. Water

A. Detox Drinks

These are the most popular weight loss drinks that detoxify your internal organ fast. Even, the trends of getting clear skin are very popular with these healthy drinks.

Being an overweight woman, you must include these drinks in your everyday meal plan. It’s the best way to get fat-free nutrition. It cut your excess calorie intake and fills your body with healthy nutrients and fibers. Therefore it helps to rejuvenates your mind, body, and skin.

1). Cucumber, Lemon, & Mint Detox Water

Ingredients Required:

• 1 cucumber, sliced
• 1 lemon, sliced
• 10-12 mint leaves
• 1 Tbsp. of grated ginger
• 4 glasses of filtered water

Kitchen Utensils Required:

• Glass Pitcher
• Fruit infused water bottles

How to Prepare:

Mix all the fruits ingredients in a pitcher or infused water bottles. Now pour the 4-6 glasses of filtered water in the pitcher or as per the capacity.

Keep them infuse overnight or for 3-4 hours. Infusion allows to dissolve fruit’s healthy nutrients into the water and turns plain water into a healthy drink. Add some ice cubes for more freshness.

Precaution: Don’t infuse fruits for more than 12 hours.

2). Strawberry, Lemon, & Mint Detox Water

Ingredients Required:

• 10 -15 quartered sliced strawberry
• 1 Lemon, thinly sliced
• 5-6 Mint Leaves
• 4 glasses of filtered water
• Ice cubes

Utensils Required:

• Glass Pitcher
• Fruit infused water bottles

How to prepare:

Mix all the ingredients in a pitcher or bottles containing water. Keep it overnight or for 3-4 hours to infuse nutrients in the water. Add some ice cubes for more freshness.

Precaution: Don’t infuse fruits for more than 12 hours.

3). Grapefruit, Cucumber, & Lemon Detox Water

Ingredients Required: 

• 4 glass water
• 1 lemon, thin sliced
• 1 lime, thin sliced
• 1 grapefruit, sliced
• 1 cucumber, sliced

Utensils Required:

• Glass pitcher
• Fruits infused water bottles

How to Prepare:

Mix all the ingredients in a pitcher containing 4 glasses of filtered water. Keep it overnight, or for 3-4 hours. Add some ice cubes for more refreshment.

Precaution: Don’t infuse fruits for more than 12 hours.

B. Green Drinks & Smoothies

Green drinks are made up of lots of green ingredients such as kale, lettuce, spinach, cucumber, and more. Many varieties fall into this category, such as green smoothies, green juice, and green soups.

But green smoothies are most popular for weight loss. One green smoothie is enough for the day.

4). Strawberry-Orange Green Smoothie

Smoothies with ingredients strawberry, orange, and spinach are loved by most peoples.

To keep up the consistency of smoothies, we need to add some milk. In that case, almond milk or skim milk helps a lot.

Unsweetened almond milk is low-calorie that makes it easier to fit into a calories control diet.

Ingredients Required: 

• 1 orange peeled
• 6-8 strawberries
• 8-10 spinach leaves
• 1 cup almond milk

Appliances Required:

• Blender

How to Prepare:

Start with almond milk as a base and mix all the ingredients in a blender. For more sweetness, you can add more fruits and for spicy flavor, mix a few tbsp. of lemon juice.

No drinks can beat the effectiveness of this weight loss drink. Know how to make delicious fruits smoothies. 

5). Green-Vanilla-Almond Smoothie

Every ingredient plays a key role to add flavor to these weight loss drinks and prevent developing a sweet tooth.

Amount of ingredients has taken to serve 2 people.

Per Serving: 180 calories, 6 g fat, 11 g protein, 8 g sugar, 3 g fiber.

Ingredients Required:

• 1 cup unsweetened coconut water
• 2 cups baby spinach
• 1 frozen banana
• 2 Tbsp. almond butter
• 2 Tbsp. organic vanilla extract
• 4 Tbsp. protein powder
• 1 cup ice

Appliances Required:

• Blender

How to Prepare:

Mix all the ingredients in the blender, and blend until it becomes smooth. Serve it immediately.

6). Spicy Ginger-Pineapple Green Juice

Green veggies preserve all the vital enzymes that are necessary to activate your fat-burning system. Always prefer fresh vegetables.

Serving Size: 2 people

Per Serving: 90 calories, 0.5 g fat, 3 g protein, 15 g sugar, 0 g fiber

Ingredients Required: 

• 3 cups baby spinach
• 1 medium cucumber
• ¾ cup fresh pineapple
• 1 tablespoon fresh ginger root

Appliances Required:

• Blender and juicer

How to prepare:

Mix all the ingredients into a juicer and keep until it becomes smooth. Serve it immediately.

C. Coffee and Tea

Tea and coffee are the most lovable all-time favorite beverages of most people and are widely served as “Morning wake-up drinks”.

Apart from alerting your mind, they reduce your food cravings.

7). Ginger Tea

Ginger is a very popular spice in India for cold-cough remedies.

Regular consumption of ginger tea boosts your metabolism and detoxifies your body. It helps to give you a toned body by slimming down your belly fat.

Ingredients Required: 

• 1-2 inch sliced Ginger
• Lemon
• Honey
• Water

How to Prepare:

Take 2 cups of water and keep it for boiling. Now add 1-2 inches of sliced or crushed ginger in the boiling water and stew it for 5-10 minutes.

Remove it from the stove and squeeze one fresh lemon juice with 1 tbsp. of honey. Mix it well and drink it every morning.

8). Green Tea

One of the wonderful beverages popularly known for ‘anti-aging’ and ‘belly fat.’ Consuming 3-4 cups of green tea is what every fitness expert recommend for weight loss.

Ingredients Required: 

• Green tea bags
• Hot water
• 4-5 Basil leaves
• Lemon juice
• Honey

Matcha green powder serves best to give full nutrients of green tea.

How to Prepare:

Take a cup of hot water and dip the green tea bag into it for few minutes until the color of water change into light green.

After few minutes, take out the tea bags and add one tbsp. of honey along with few drops of lemon juice. Mix them well. It’s ready to drink.

If you’re using leaves, then steep them in hot water for few minutes and drink.

9). Mint Tea

The health benefits of mint leaves are vast like green tea. This healthiest herb relieves bad breath caused by smoking, eating onion and garlic.

Drinking mint tea soothes your upset stomach and heartburn while losing weight.

Ingredients Required:

• Fresh mint leaves
• 2 cups of filtered water
• Honey

How to Prepare:

Take fresh leaves. Either tear them apart with hands or crushed them. Now keep the crushed leaves in a small strainer placed over the teapot. Bring the boiled water and pour it over the leaves. The water should fall on the crushed leaves.

It’s time to cover the teapot to let the leaves steep for 5 minutes. Gently press the mint leaves to extract its oil completely. Remove the strainer and pour tea into a cup. For sweetness, mix raw honey.

10). Honey – Lemon – Ginger Tea

Adding lemon tea to your regular diet can help you shed many pounds. But keep continuing your morning workouts and yoga routine.

The Health benefits of this lemon-tea make it the most popular weight loss drink. Being a rich source of vitamin C, it boosts collagen production, a compound that makes the skin clear and youthful.

Drinking warm honey water after waking up in the morning is also beneficial for weight loss.

Ingredients Required:

• ½ tbsp. honey
• 2 cups water
• 1 Tbsp. lemon juice
• 1 Tbsp. chopped ginger
• 1 Tbsp. tea leaves

How to Prepare:

Take 2 cups of filtered water in a pan and keep it for boiling. Add some chopped ginger to boiling water. Keep it until ginger leaves a light green color in the water.

Remove the pan from the stove. Now add one tbsp. of lemon juice and honey. Strain it and drink.

11). Black Coffee

Another most popular and favorite ‘wake up drink.’

The Harvard School of Public Researcher survey over 250,000 Americans, on their coffee consumption. After 28 years, they found that rates of disease and death were 15% less in people who drank 3-5 cups of black coffee than people who don’t.

Black coffee stimulates metabolic activity and burns calories to keep you slim. Apart from that, the caffeine content in coffee prevents mild depression, and headache.

Regular consumption of coffee cuts down unnecessary calorie intake and helps in losing weight.

Ingredients Required: 

• Coffee powder
• Warm water
• Strainer

How to Prepare:

Take 2 cups of filtered water and keep it on the stove for few seconds. After boil, add the required quantity of coffee ground and mix it. Remove the pan from the stove, strain it and pour it in coffee mugs.

D. Fat Burning Juices

Drinking juice for weight loss is not a new concept. People are following this ritual for the past many years. Drinking fresh juice is a great way to consume lots of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, and fibers without sugar.

Incorporating fresh fruits juice into your daily meals can speed up your metabolism and weight loss.

12). Grapefruit Juice

Grapefruit is a very popular fruit for the flat belly. It boosts your body’s metabolic rate. Drinking a small glass of grapefruits before meals curb your appetite and help consuming lower calories.

A study published in Nutrition and Metabolism, reveals that grapefruits juice before a meal reduces 20-29% calories intake before reporting to hunger. Therefore, it helps people to stick to their weight loss diet easily.

Ingredients Required:

• Ruby red grapefruit
• Fresh Mint leaves
• Ginger, cut into pieces

Appliances Required:

• Juicer

How to Prepare:

Take 2-3 grapefruit and wash them properly. Cut them into two or three pieces and keep them into the juicer. In between, add ginger and mint leaves for a spicy flavor. You will get lovely shades of pink color in juice.

Pour this juice into glasses and add some ice cubes for more freshness.

13). Carrot juice

Carrot juice is best for weight loss as it controls unwanted snacks attacks. Morning consumption of this low-calorie and high-fiber fruit juice keeps you full until lunch.

Adding cucumber, lemon and an apple to this juice develops a wonderful taste. These ingredients also help to flush out toxins and improve digestion.

Ingredients Required:

• 3 carrots
• I medium cucumber
• Half lemon
• 1 apple

Appliances Required:

• Juicer

How to Prepare:

Wash all the ingredients before approaching the juicer. Now take out the upper layers of carrots and cucumber. Put them one by one in a juicer to squeeze out the juice.

Next, take an apple and cut it into 3-4 pieces. After getting the juice, squeeze the lemon into the glass and serve it.

14). Lemonade

We all know that drinking warm water with lemon in the morning is a miracle for losing weight and boosting metabolism. It enhances your fat-burning mechanism fast.

Being rich in vitamin C and antioxidants, it detoxifies your body and improves your skin tone.

Ingredients Required:

• One fresh lemon
• Warm water
• 2-3 Tbsp. honey
• Grated ginger
• Saucepan

How to Prepare:

Take 2 cups of water in a saucepan and add ¼ cup of grated ginger. Boil it for one minute and strain out the ginger water into a glass, to let it cool down.

After cooling, add 2 more cups of water, lemon juice, and 2-3 tbsp. of honey. Stir it well and keep it in refrigeration for one hour or you can add some ice cubes. Enjoy.

15). Water

The health benefits of this calorie-free drink are numerous. It hydrates your body and flushes out toxins by activating the cleansing mechanism.

Drinking 8-10 glasses is what everyone suggests for proper body function.

Weight loss by drinking water is a very cheap and easiest way to burn your calories and satisfy your appetite.

So, drink a glass of water whenever you feel hungry.

These weight loss drinks will not reduce your weight overnight. But Yes, if you consume them regularly with a little warm-up exercises then it will boost the rate of fat-burning fast. Give them a try.

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