Eating back exercise calories and gaining weight...

Stop eating the exercise calories then. There is nothing that says that you absolutely have to eat them.. so stop for a bit and see what happens. I never really eat any of mine back unless I'm seeing my personal trainer... then I try too so my net isn't too low.

Stick with it for a couple of weeks. You'll start losing again, I bet.

I had that problem when I started using this site. When logging in your exercise, type (0) or as I do I give myself 10 calorie points for every exercise activity I do. Since I've changed that, I've lost every week.

I believe you should stay as close to your target calories as possible, if you have a small amount of spillage into your exercise calories is okay, its just when you eat the entire exercise calories...what happens is either you will stay the same or gain a little. I never go no more than 200 cal over my goal calories w/ exercise. But you should change up as much as possible because you have to trick your body...if you eat to few it will think you are starving yourself and go into storage mode and of course you dont want that and if you eat too many you get no results. So stay within most of the time and indulge some of the time...keeping up rigorously with your exercise!

The only big issue with eating them back is if MFP or something else is causing inaccurate counts of either meal calories or calories burned. You may want to try eating most instead of all of them back. I eat mine back almost daily since joining this site and lost 16 lbs since Feb. (had a couple of plateaus in there which I broke by eating a little more each time).

I tried eating back my exercise calories (I gave it a month just to give my body time to adjust) and I gained a pound, lost a pound... Now I just stick to eating back a little (because I am usually starving a few hours after I work out). I burn 500-600 calories average and maybe eat an extra 200. It works for me and now I am losing consistently about 3lbs a week (42lbs in . Plus when I ate back all of my exercise calories I usually felt overly stuffed and sick. Weight loss is not one size fits all and sometimes you need to experiment and see what works for you. :-)

I actually have experieinced this as well. I think there are many factors involved, not the least of which is they type of calories you are consuming that is extra, when you eat them, etc. As a rule the recommendation is to eat half of them back. AS a rule I don't generally eat them back and certainly only if I've really burned a lot, but I do make sure to at least hit my 1200. My recommendation would be to take a look at the other things you're doing, eating, etc. Make sure your calories burned are really truly what you yourself is burning (HRM) and not an estimate based on someone else at your weight or what a treadmill or other equiment might say. If everything else is the same and the only thing changing is the number of calories you're eating back, then take a look at what these extra calories are. If they are fruit, veggies or protein, you're probably OK. If it's junk, then not so much. You can always go back to not eating them back for a while and see what changes. Then maybe you can try eating back 1/4 of them and see if that helps.

There could be many reasons why you are gaining weight. If you aren't using an HRM to calculate the number of calories burned, you may be overestimating and therefor, overeating. You also may be going over in fats or carbs even though you are staying within calories (I"m not saying you are, but if so, that could be a reason. )
ETA: Also, if you used to NOT eat your exercise calories back and you just started to eat them back, it's possible your body was in starvation mode, and you will need to give your body a few weeks to get used to the extra calories so you can start losing weight again.