working on changes

I've lost a little bit of weight, but I think that was mainly from being sick for 2 days and not keeping anything down. I'm working on eliminating soda from my diet. I'm still drinking soda, I won't lie and say I'm not but I am trying to cut down on it. I'm also drinking caffeine free soda to help ween myself off the caffeine, that is my main reasons for drinking soda so much.
I've also been trying to chew gum a lot to help keep my mouth occupied so I'm not as tempted to eat something. I have a bad habit of bored eating so I'm trying really hard not to do that, and think to myself are you really hungry or are you just bored. Mostly it's at night I want to eat for no reason. So I've been trying to watch myself and stay out of the kitchen as much as possible. I won't even go in unless I have to.