Good morning all, and thanks again to everyone's kind and helpful replies to my previous posts. The BP.net community never fails to be an invaluable resource to fumbling new keepers such as myself!

My BP is 7 months old and 268g (last weighed sometime between June 17 and June 22). When I got her mid-March she was ~100 grams (born in November 2017) and has a naturally slow growth rate. I even suspect her of being the runt of her clutch. She's proportionately just fine and doesn't appear underweight at all.

In fact, I am concerned that she's putting on too much weight too fast, especially this past month where I've noticed she's gained the most in the least amount of time. She once jumped 20g in under 10 days (weighed on empty each time). I feed her every 5 days ~15% of her body weight, sometimes a little less since she is steadily outgrowing the rats I have in my freezer. I initially planned on following the "every 5 days until 500g" guideline, but because she is a naturally slow grower, is 5 days too frequent?

I sometimes feel that I'm almost -pushing- her to grow with how often she eats. I guess it also doesn't help that an old coworker of mine who keeps quite a few snakes himself told me that I shouldn't be feeding any more often than 7-10 days unless I plan on breeding her. He called my 5-day schedule "borderline powerfeeding" and warned me about obesity leading to early death and fatty liver disease and all sorts of complications, which scared me to be honest. Just to be safe, I thought I'd ask around here for more opinions. Reading through old threads about feeding schedules left me even less sure of what to think.