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Well, that's not very cool of your dad. Most dad's just don't realize how sensitive teenage girls are though. My dad used to do this to me when I was twelve, and while his mild suggestions were very well warranted and from genuine concern, it still hurt my feelings and when I was about fourteen and started caring about my appearance more I remembered his little comments and I felt really bad and even though I didn't really have enough will power to stop eating as much, I weighed myself like four times every day and developed this kind of body-dysmorphic disorder and I felt every bite of food I ate was making me fatter. I'm glad I grew out of that phase. My sympathies for you if you feel that way about yourself. But you've got to stop looking at yourself in terms of appearance and focus more on health, because there will always be some gorgeous hot little thing that can make you feel bad about yourself, but if you are healthy you will feel better in general and you won't care how models and people look because you know that they starve themselves adn smoke cigarettes and do drugs to stay that way. I wouldn't want to live like that.