The best thing you can do is to plan your meals in advance.
Plan your calories as well as the grams of P/C/F meals in advance.
Again, lots and lots of people eat the same foods every single day.. which is not necessary, but it's great to have standard set meals for breakfast - lunch - dinner as well as snacks.
And make your calorie intake depend on activity levels.
If you can avoid it, I wouldn't prepare foods well in advance. Actually that nearly always has been a way to make me overeat while preparing the foods and often prepare too much. Plus, the food will always taste best when freshly prepared and piping hot. E.g. boilt eggs that are still warm.
As for candy and other treats.. have 1 free meal a week in which you allow yourself whatever you like, but again.. plan the calories. Like, I lurv lurv icecream and prefer to eat the entire container of 400g. So, that's 1200 kcal.. and I make sure that it's always on a very heavy lifting day, so I can eat it without feeling guilty.
Candy can replace workout carbs , but that's a bit trickier to do. Buying mini-versions is probably safer than large bags. But if you can manage, you can make small bags in advance and weigh it out. Some people enjoy using candy during workouts as performance is about the same as with normal sports drinks. For me, candy's GI is a tad too high (GI=70) though much better than plain dextrose (GI = 100) and I prefer jam slushes (GI <70 because of fructose) as it's drinkable and has more nutrients (anti-oxidants) and gives less energy swings. Plus, there's very little risk that I'll be scarfing down an entire jar of jam in one sitting, while that might happen with candy.
Breaking habits.. it is not easy, but one does it step by step for some things and radically for other things. It's not always clear which approach is best.
Like that free meal I mentioned.. some people should not do that as it makes them re-addicted. Other people must always have a free meal as too much restriction makes them crave for forbidden foods much more than when they wouldn't have restricted themselves.
I guess you will know for yourself into which category you belong. I'm definitely into the latter. Unfortunately a lot of the foods I love, are the foods I don't tolerate well, like gluten and dairy. So, I try to not have icecream or pastry too often (like once a month will do), and instead indulge on potatoes (crisps, fries) or popcorn.
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