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Nick Hardwick’s weight-loss secret is no secret at all

When you eat fewer calories than you burn, you lose weight. That’s not exactly breaking news.

But for former Chargers center Nick Hardwick, it’s been hard to get people to understand. Hardwick lost 85 pounds in less than five months after he retired last year, and he’s been subjected to all sorts of questions about whether that radical weight loss is a sign of something nefarious. In reality, Hardwick told Emily Kaplan of TheMMQB.com, it’s been a simple matter of eating less while continuing to put himself through vigorous cardiovascular exercise in retirement.

“You want the secret?