BP's eat and grow more than we thought?

[MrLang]

I can bet many females in the wild are not breeding till they are 4+ years old, while some breeders try to breed their girls as soon as possible, which could be as young as a year old.

I was hoping this thread would present the opportunity for me to share a thought I had, then got pessimistic, then you brought my opportunity back!

So this is COMPLETE SPECULATION but it is based on pretty deep knowledge of biology and ecology:

I was thinking the other day that the famous 1,000g wall might have something to do with evolution. It's advantageous to stay smaller in a lot of cases. I can imagine females evolving to stay at a trim 1,000g where they can find food more easily, hide more easily, etc. until they are sexually mature. At that point they would be bulking up to breed. So just an interesting thought that maybe the 1,000g wall is created by feeding a snake up 'too fast' compared to the natural growth rate and the body isn't interested in breaching 1,000g until they're looking to bulk up for eggs.