{"id":61634,"date":"2012-01-03T19:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T00:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=61634"},"modified":"2012-01-03T21:41:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T02:41:30","slug":"allen-buddy-shuh-graduates-from-high-schools-most-athletic-to-biggest-loser-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/allen-buddy-shuh-graduates-from-high-schools-most-athletic-to-biggest-loser-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Allen \u201cBuddy\u201d Shuh Graduates from High School’s Most Athletic to Biggest Loser 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Dani M. Stone<\/em><\/p>\n

When Allen \u201cBuddy\u201d Shuh\u2019s 7-year-old son innocently asked him at the dinner table if he was fat, the 42-year-old pastor from Wayne, Michigan simply answered \u201cyes.\u201d Weighing in at 403 pounds, Buddy points to lack of exercise and stress-eating as the primary causes for his weight gain that led him to become a contestant, with his brother Ben Shuh<\/a><\/strong>, on this season of Biggest Loser<\/a><\/strong>.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In high school Buddy was very active, becoming captain of both football and wrestling teams, and was even voted \u201cmost athletic\u201d in his senior year. He went on to play football in college but after he graduated, receiving a bachelor\u2019s degree in mathematics, he stopped exercising and eating right and the pounds began to pile on.<\/p>\n

In 2005, Buddy and his wife received devastating news. Their unborn daughter was diagnosed with Spina bifida<\/a><\/strong>, a condition occurring in the first few months of life where the spine fails to close during development. They also learned she was missing several organs. She was carried to full term but was never able to come home and spent her short life in the pediatric intensive care unit. Buddy and his wife visited their tiny angel every day until she passed away, just shy of six-months old. Buddy admits the stress of working, going to school, commuting to see his daughter at the hospital, and the anguish he felt when she died, compounded his unhealthy eating habits<\/a><\/strong>. \u201cWith the severity of what was happening, eating one meal correctly or eating one day healthily, seemed very trivial and unimportant to me,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Buddy now has four children, two sons and two daughters. He knows a healthy lifestyle isn\u2019t trivial and is excited for the future where he looks forward to walking his daughters down the aisle.<\/p>\n

In addition to leading by example, Buddy is excited to lose weight so he can play sports again, lower his blood pressure, eliminate his sleep apnea and go shopping at regular clothing stores again. Buddy is joined by little brother, Ben, on season 13 of the Biggest Loser.<\/p>\n

Bookmark our Biggest Loser channel<\/a> for the latest show news, and subscribe to our Biggest Loser Newsletter below.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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