I think you`re making things quite difficult for your monitors if you believe they will not benefit from being active year round and being fed the appropriate ammounts of food, because their "instinct" is to gorge themselves and brumate! Your (our), responsibility is to provide them with the conditions that will support them at all times.
Not enough food, too high/low temps, (the reason they brumate in the wild), is not optimum. The problem seems to be that they AREN`T kept in the best of conditions in the overwhelming majority of cases, it`s realy nothing to do with their "instincts"!

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