McKinsey, I think you will find with time, more experience and a larger collection that almost nothing is absolutely cut in stone with these snakes or how people choose to keep them. While somethings can be taken as a given, and usually the best way for a newcomer to deal with learning to care for their snake - very few things in my experience thus far are if you do X - Y will absolutely happen absolutely everytime.

I feed young snakes as well every 5 days until they reach a certain weight or whenever I believe that specific snake is ready to go to every 7 days. That does work out to twice a calendar week on some weeks so a bit of clarification is required there I think. Tim has a lot of experience with a lot of snakes, his advice is based on that wealth of hands on experience.

To the OP, you've hopefully learned from this thread is that there is more than one feeding routine choice. What every choice though shares in common is that none of them push a snake to eat to the point of excess or to trigger a regurge or a fast. None of the people posting are pushing their snakes to grow up fast - just to grow naturally with good health based on a well thought out feeding plan for that snake.