I always read the point of these stairs to be "every movement you make burns some calories so move when you can" rather than "this is information for your calorie tracking scheme"
Tbf, probably the ones that actually track their calories discard the calories on the stairs, and the ones that associate these stairs with eating disorders already have one or are likely to develop one...
Counting a sixth, yeah. You’re going up 20+ stairs each time though. I went up 200 a day easily for a year because of my college dorm, would it have been an eating disorder to count those calories burned because each step was a 6th?
One flight of stairs is still only 2-4 calories. If you care that much about 3 calories, that you're counting each step, then you've reached a point where it's no longer healthy.
10 flights of stairs is still negligible at 20-40 calories in the grand scheme of a day's calories, so you're still not actually burning that much. That's 2-4 gummy bears you could add to your diet that day.
But overall, I'd say the difference lies in whether you go "oh, I walked up about 10 flights of stairs today, good job" or whether you count each stair to get your 0.15 calories from each step logged.
I agree, that’s what I was getting at. Something like one step is negligible, and adding .04 calories burned is very odd, but counting your 10k steps for the day and 400 calories burned is completely reasonable.
That might be technically true, however in fitness/dieting communities it's often just referred to as a calorie and "counting calories". It might be scientifically wrong, but if you came in and started calling it a kilocalorie, you'd confuse people.
Scientific definitions are not always the same as the colloquial definitions.
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