This easy celery juice weight loss recipe is astoundingly delicious and great for overall health! For best results drink 16 ounces of straight celery juice on an empty stomach every day. It's a great way to get all the health benefits, with tips for making green juices using a blender or juicer at a fraction of the cost of grocery stores.
We love this healthy drink as much as our fresh mango juice, detox beet juice, and green machine juice.
Quick Look
- 🕒 Prep Time: 15 minutes
- 🌡️ Cook Time: No cooking needed
- ⏳ Total Time: 15 minutes
- 🍽️ Serving: 1 serving (16 ounces)
- ⚡ Calories: 51kcal
- 🌶️ Flavor Profile: Clean, crisp and lightly salty-green, best plain with nothing added
- ✋ Difficulty: The simplest juice there is - one ingredient
Quick Answer
Wash a whole large bunch of celery (8-10 stalks), chop off both ends and discard the leaves. In a juicer, simply add the prepared celery and pour. In a blender, chop the celery, blend on high until it becomes a fine puree (adding up to ⅓ cup of water only if needed), then squeeze it through a nut bag or cheese cloth to separate the fibers, and drink fresh.
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There is a big celery juice craze going, and for good reason too! It offers loads of health benefits, from supporting the immune system to acting as a natural energizer without caffeine. It is best to drink plain celery juice without anything added such as lime juice or lemon.
If you have extra celery around then be sure to also try our parsley juice with celery and cucumber recipe.
Why This Recipe Works
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- Juicing beats chewing for absorption. The juice does not have the fibers to break down so the body absorbs the nutrients more effectively and efficiently.
- Plain is the point. Per Anthony William, author of Medical Medium, celery juice is best consumed alone with nothing added to receive its healing benefits - no lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, added fruit, collagen or protein powder.
- Water is a blender-only compromise. Up to ⅓ cup helps the stalks mix if your blade needs it, but fresh juicing with nothing added provides the maximum benefits.
- The leaves turn it bitter. After washing, discard the leaves as they can add a bitter taste to celery juice.
- Fresh means now. It holds the most nutrients right when the juice is extracted; nutrition starts to deplete as time passes.
- 16 ounces is the target. Measure it easily with my ounces-to-cups guide - it is 2 cups.
Why You'll Love This Recipe
- Much cheaper than store-bought! Forget spending loads of money on fresh juice from the store. You can make it easily at home in both a juicer or a blender for far less money.
- No juicer, no problem! Every tool and step to make it in a blender. One of the best juicers to use is a Breville juicer (affiliate link).
- One of my favorite juice recipes for weight loss. It may promote a better digestive tract and helps decrease acid reflux and uncomfortable indigestion.
- Celery has incredible properties! It is from the apiaceae family, rich in antioxidants, and a vegetable you will want to enjoy every day.
Key Ingredients
- Organic celery stalks - use an entire large bunch, preferably organic. I am talking a whopping 8-10 celery stalks. I promise you it is not too much and it will not harm you, only benefit your wellbeing. If not organic, wash really well to rinse away pesticide sprays.
- Water - use water only if using a blender, and only if needed to help it mix.
As always, please see recipe card below for full ingredient list.
Variations
- Strict Medical Medium style - nothing but celery, juiced fresh, on an empty stomach.
- Blender compromise - add up to ⅓ cup fresh water so the stalks blend, knowing it trades a little benefit for convenience.
- Save the pulp - the celery "meat" can go into smoothies, meatloaf or baked goods instead of the trash.
- Not a celery fan? Get your greens from my green machine juice or green detox juice instead.
How to Make Celery Juice
1Wash the celery and chop off both ends, discarding the leaves. Chop the celery and add it to a high powered blender (I use a Vitamix). ONLY IF NEEDED, add up to ⅓ cup of fresh water.
2Blend on high like you would a smoothie until it becomes a fine puree. Place a cheese cloth or nut bag over a bowl, pour the puree in, and squeeze to separate the celery fibers from the liquid.
3Pour the liquid in a glass and enjoy this celery juice recipe right away fresh!
4Juicer version: add the washed and prepared celery (no leaves) straight to the juicer, pour and enjoy. For maximum benefits do not add any water or other liquids.
Expert Tips
- Drink 16 ounces first thing in the morning and at the end of the day on an empty stomach. This allows for optimal digestion and absorption.
- Too much at once? Sip it in 4 ounce increments and wait 20 minutes before eating or consuming anything else.
- Consume within 24 hours for the best nutrition, and no more than 2 days, stored in a sealed jar in the refrigerator.
- Sharpen that blade. A fine puree strains cleaner and yields more juice from the same bunch.
Serving Ideas
Drink it as your morning opener before coffee, or pair the routine with warm lemon water and an apple cider vinegar drink on alternate days. Celery lovers can double down with cabbage soup at lunch.
For sweeter days in the rotation, my watermelon juice, carrot juice, and aloe vera juice keep things interesting.
Recipe FAQs
Celery takes more calories to digest than the green vegetable has in it. So your body burns more calories digesting celery than the calories consumed. When the body burns more calories than it consumes the result is weight loss.
When you drink celery juice every day you start to have clearer skin, a more positive mood, less anxiety, more energy and better sleeping patterns. If consumed with the right diet you experience less indigestion and weight loss!
Juicing celery rather than eating it whole in a stalk with all its fibers allows the body to digest it properly and absorb more of the nutrients such as calcium, folate, vitamin B6, vitamin K, and vitamin C.
Celery takes more calories to consume and digest than it consists of. There are about 50 calories in this celery juice weight loss recipe and it takes more calories than that to digest it, meaning it can help with weight loss.
Celery juice is mostly made of water, is high in antioxidants and low in sugar which can help with clearer skin.
One whopping large bunch of 8-10 celery stalks makes about one 16 ounce serving. It is not too much and it will not harm you, only benefit your wellbeing.
Celery Juice (Weight Loss Recipe)
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Ingredients
- 1 bunch organic celery end and leaves removed (about 8-10 stalks)
Instructions
- Wash the celery and chop off both ends, discarding the leaves.
In a Blender
- Chop the celery and add it to a high powered blender (I use a Vitamix). Only if it is hard to blend, add up to ⅓ cup of fresh water. The water helps the celery stalks to mix and not get stuck. But please note that celery juice should be made fresh and consumed alone with nothing added to receive its healing benefits (so make sure that blade is sharp!) and see notes below on this.
- Blend on high like you would a smoothie until it becomes a fine puree. Place a cheese cloth or nut bag over a bowl and pour the pureed celery juice in the bag. Squeeze it to separate the celery fibers from the liquid. Discard the celery "meat" or save it for smoothies, or to add to meatloaf or baked goods.
- Pour the juice in a glass. Enjoy!
In a Juicer
- If using a juicer, add the washed and prepared celery to the juicer. After it is done, pour the juice in a glass and enjoy!
debbie says
Who knew? Thank you so much 💓
Danielle Fahrenkrug, Certified Health & Nutrition Life Coach says
You are very welcome!
Linda Purl says
Amazing Recipe.
Danielle Fahrenkrug says
Thank you so much Linda!