Two teaspoons of chia seeds, which have around thirty-five calories, seemed to work as well as three teaspoons. The yogurt-and-chia subjects, however, ended up eating nearly three hundred fewer calories at lunch, so in effect, the chia could be thought as having “negative” calories. We don’t know if the subjects somehow compensated later on by eating more at dinner, but if adding chia to your diet means eating hundreds fewer calories day after day due to their satiating effects, you’d expect to lose weight over time. You don’t know, though, until you put it to the test.
