And yeah, yeah, intellectually I know: I'm not a cow. But the intellectual and the emotional are not always 100% in accord.

And at the risk of being a bit TMI, it does seem - or at least to me - that there's some kind of a relationship between the shifting levels of lady-hormones and perception of one's body as "ok" vs. "not ok."

I became very self-conscious of my shoulders (it sometimes happens for an isolated body part) yesterday afternoon, and was all, "Why do I have such giant shoulders? Why? Why do I have to look like a 1950s era linebacker? It makes me look so butch; I don't want to look butch, waaa"