Hi there,
I agree with the above- it does get easier: I've even been attentively reading the recipe pages in the paper this morning, thinking to myself, "oo, I'll make that at some point". Once your body stops telling you that you're hungry I found it a lot easier.
Carrie-Ann is right too- after a couple of good losses, you become very single-minded about it and go to all sorts of lengths not to get in a food-situation.
I can be around people eating and not feel tempted, I only find it a bit icky now if there is real 'troughing' going on!
Like Jess, one of the habits I wanted to break was thinking about food so much. My OH is a chef, so an enormous amount of our time (and money!) was spent shopping, thinking about and cooking food. oddly, I sometimes miss these things more than the eating itself: baking a cake for no reason, wandering around a market trying things, cooking for all our friends- but I know that the harder I work at it now, the sooner I will be able to do all those things again and be able to appreciate them without taking them for granted and going overboard. Why splurge on a nasty take-away when you can have the fun, comfort and shared experience of gathering lovely, fresh, healthy ingredients and cooking something together instead? A year or so ago this was always my attitude, but something went wrong in the last 6 months and I forgot it. One of the reasons I'm doing this is to remind myself of exactly that- not to take food for granted, to savour its taste without gorging, not to waste it by eating junk and to make the very most of what I put in my body.
I see it as a sort of 'reset to factory mode'!
Good luck and hang in- I promise, it does get easier.