You are ready to lose weight. But you're tired of hearing all of those outdated and proven weight loss tips like eating more veggies, limiting portions, and exercising more.  Here are nine diet tips you may not have heard yet. Some involve different ways of eating or adding certain foods to your diet. Others involve learning new behaviors or strategies to help keep you on track.

Weight loss tips no. # 1: variety is overrated

Who hasn't heard the advice to "try a little bit of everything" if you're at the buffet?

But it turns out the strain doesn't deserve its good reputation, says Dawn Jackson Blatner, RD, a Chicago dietitian and author of the Flexitarian Diet.

“We know that variety makes you eat more,” he says, citing several published studies and his own experience counseling weight loss patients.

For example, researchers in France found that study participants ate more French fries when offered ketchup and mayonnaise next to them. And when given the option of having cream or whipped cream with their brownies, they ate more than when offered plain brownies.

Other researchers have found that people who have been successful in maintaining weight loss tend to eat diets with limited variety.

Weight Loss Tips no. # 2: have barley for breakfast

“Barley is the new oats,” says Jackson Blatner.

 Barley gained a reputation for fighting hunger after Swedish researchers found that eating barley or rye for breakfast kept blood sugar levels in balance. This is because the carbohydrates in barley and rye grains have a "low glycemic index", which means they raise your blood sugar more slowly than other carbohydrate foods. This allows you to prevent your blood sugar from spiking and then falling, which can make you hungry.

A word of warning: "Buy lightly shelled barley, not pearl barley," Blatner says. Swedish researchers used minimally processed in-shell barley and cannot explain the same effects for more processed forms, like pearl barley.

Weight loss tips no. # 3: beef up your lunch salad

One of the most common mistakes dieters make is eating a vegetable salad with little to no dressing for lunch, says Joan Salge Blake, RD, professor of nutrition at Boston University and Porte - spoken by the American Dietetic Association. “Then they starve to death in the middle of the afternoon,” he says.

 A salad is a great option, he says, if you add a little protein and a little fat to help you feel fuller for longer.

 Top your veg with a 3-ounce piece of chicken breast and you've added about 26 grams of protein, but only 140 calories. Add about two tablespoons of light dressing and your salad can fill up enough to exceed 3 p.m. Hunger disappears without touching the vending machine.

Weight loss tips n. # 4: stock up on frozen vegetables

Of course, fresh vegetables are delicious and nutritious. But faced with the need to scrape a carrot, wash and slice a zucchini, or cut broccoli into blooms, many of us say, “Too many problems! and pick potatoes instead

 To make things easier, fill your freezer with frozen vegetables, Blake tells dieters.

 “They are already clean, chopped and ready to cook in the microwave,” he says. "It's like having Rachael Ray in the freezer."

 An even better way to make sure you eat more vegetables is to cook frozen vegetables ahead of time. Microwave the entire bag of green beans, for example. Then keep them in the fridge, ready to pour into canned soups, add to a salad, or just eat by the handful.