Just moved in with the girlfriend, she likes to keep junk food around. I'm one of those "if it's in my cabinet, I'm going to eat it" people, how do I navigate this?

A bit of background. About a year ago, I dropped 10-15 lbs, hit my goal weight, and have maintained since. I'm at a healthy weight, but since I moved in with the girlfriend a few months ago, I've been slowly but surely gaining it back. I want to put a stop to it before it gets out of hand.

My girlfriend is a nurse, and works night shifts. Her schedule is such that she'll frequently work 3 12-hour shifts in a row, and she needs to have some junk food to get her through those shifts. She's the type of girl that sort of naturally self-regulates her diet, and a bag of chips will last her 3 weeks.

I've always made all my good decisions at the grocery store so I don't have to make them at home. I'll perfectly content eating yogurt, grilled chicken, veggies, and granola, if that's what's in my fridge. Likewise, I will absolutely demolish a family size box of cheez-its + a tub of ice cream, if that's what happens to be in my house. At the grocery store, I only need to make that good decision once, then I go home and I'm fine. However, when there's a package of Oreos chilling in my cabinet, they're just tempting me the ENTIRE day. It's like, every time I walk past the kitchen, I have to make that good decision again and again. I only have so much willpower, and I can only tell myself "no" so many times.

I'm still trying to make the adjustment from my bachelor life, where I could cook what I want, and keep only the foods that I want. It made it relatively easy to lose weight when my cabinet didn't look like the snack food isle at Acme. For the record, my girlfriend eats well, exercises, we both cook healthy foods, and she's always supportive of any health-conscious decisions. However, the fact of the matter is that she needs to keep junk food around for her own sanity, and I have the discipline of an 8 year old in a candy shop. Which was never a problem in the past because I just didn't buy junk.

I know a lot of you have been in similar situations. How did you handle this adjustment? Any tips or advice that helped you out? I know at the end of the day, it's going to come down to discipline and self-control. But are there any little things that helped take the edge off for you?

Thanks for the help!

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