Catherine Hickland
		Extreme Makeover Catherine Hickland (Lindsay) changed her body, and tells you how you can, too!

	It’s a story that most women can relate to: One day, ONE LIFE TO LIVE's Catherine Hickland (Lindsay) woke up and really needed something different. "I just remember thinking I really wanted to change the way I looked from top to bottom," says the actress. "I wanted to change my look, and I wanted to change it drastically." First, the easy part: She added hair extensions until her own hair grew into the longer length she wanted. Then, the hard part: "I wanted to lose weight, get in the gym and change my body," she says. "I wanted to do it without a trainer, without a cook and without all that stuff that people can’t afford. I also wanted to see if it could be done on top of a super-busy life." Just Do It Finding time would be no easy task, as Hickland has not one, but two full-time jobs. In addition to her duties on OLTL, she’s the owner of the Cat Cosmetics company headquartered in New York City. Like most women, she’d been telling herself that she simply couldn’t find the time to make the changes. Then she got real. "I hate the gym," she explains. "I thought I could tell myself that and not walk in there after not going for four years. But then I decided to talk myself into something a little more positive and just walk through the door and do it." Her strategy was simple. She made a short-term commitment that she could live with. "I committed myself to five days a week, for just three weeks in a row," she says. "I had heard somewhere that if you do that, you start to crave it, and now I do crave it." While Hickland easily could have hired a trainer to keep her motivated for the long haul, she chose to go it alone, almost. "Well, I did hire a trainer, for just one day, to show me [exercises to do] so I didn’t hurt myself and so I would know what I was doing," she relates. "That’s something most people could afford. After that, I was on my own." Role Model Soon, Hickland’s three weeks turned into months, and she started to see results. "My body is very different now," she says. "And I want to show other women that they can do it, too. I am really dedicated to showing women, no matter what age, no matter what size, that it can be done. Everything I do outside of OLTL is geared toward showing people that something can be done. You can get in shape. You don’t need to be rich and famous to do it, you just need to be motivated, that’s it." "I want to be the motivator," she concludes. "I want to be the person who flips the switch for you."