What twelve weeks of the routine looks like
Twelve weeks is 84 mornings and three tubs. What the routine is actually made of, why the count matters more than the calendar, and how not to run out in week nine.
Twelve weeks sounds like a long time. Written out, it's 84 mornings, one 10 g scoop each, thirty scoops to a tub — three tubs. That's the whole of it, and it's worth seeing laid out before you start.
A supplement is a daily habit, not an event
Nothing about a supplement happens on a particular day. It's a nutrient you take every day, at the dose printed on the label, for as long as it's part of your routine. We won't put a date on what you'll see — nobody can honestly promise that for a supplement. What we can do is make the routine easy to keep.
Change one thing at a time
Starting a supplement in the same fortnight as a new serum, a new cleanser and a course of retinol makes it hard to keep track of what's what. Start one thing at a time, leave everything else exactly where it is, and you'll always know what you're taking and why.
The variable you actually control
Not the biology. The count.
Twelve weeks is 84 mornings. At one 10 g scoop a day, thirty scoops to a tub, that's three tubs — and the only number you control is how many of those 84 you actually took.
Missed days aren't a moral failure, they're arithmetic. A dose you skip is a dose that isn't there. Skip two mornings a week and you reach the end of twelve weeks having taken 60 doses instead of 84, which is why the scoop is a scoop rather than a handful of capsules: the easy version is the one that's still happening in week ten.
What each week asks of you
Week one: a scoop a day. Week two: the same. That's the honest version, and it doesn't change. What to expect sets out what arrives, how to take each product, when each pack runs out and how a subscription ships — read it before you start.
Don't run out in week nine
The easiest way for a twelve-week run to end early is the tub finishing on a Tuesday and the next one arriving the following Monday.
If you're going to do this properly, buy the run rather than the tub: Marine Collagen + Vitamin C on a standing order puts the next tub on your counter before the last scoop comes out of this one — at 10% off, or 20% off on the three-tub plan, with free shipping on every subscription order — and you can skip, move or cancel it from your account in the same few clicks it took to start. Three tubs, 84 mornings.
If you take medication or you're being treated for anything, run a new supplement past your doctor before you start. Supplements are there to support a diet, not to replace one.
