I’m really not trying to do so Shawn, I just a) don’t want you to buy the wrong aircraft for what you’re intending to use it for, and/or B) get into trouble mid-air with an overloaded or unbalanced airframe.
for the price of a 162, you can buy an older yet well maintained 172P with a few thousand hours of flight time and it’s twice the aircraft. Update it with a GPS(if it already hasn’t) and you’re golden. And getting the VFR private pilot rating isn’t too bad in price, just takes a little more time to do so and honestly I think you’d get MUCH more use and fun out of it. I had my ultralite rating for years and didn’t get hardly any use out of flying until I went to VFR and ultimately, IFR.
LSA is really just for someone who wants to just take a plan up for an hour or two and puddle jump from here to syracuse and back for lunch or something. When you start throwing in luggage and dogs + passengers you really need to look beyond that.
however in hindsight, if LSA is what you want to go for do it. You’ve got to start somewhere, you just may need to change your paramaters a little(like leave the pets and pack light). LSA would suit and be very practical for that instance and I wouldn’t hesitate to do so as long as you stick well within the limits of the aircraft.
One thing I’ll get into detail on here is why I chose to not load to the limit of max gross CAP, and it revolves around approach(landing). In my flight experience(~570 hours now) I have had many occasion where I have to abort an approach due to weather and or landing surface conditions. When a plane is loaded to it’s max gross cap it’s performance is limited. Slow “airfoil” reaction, rate of climb, etc and it’s even more compunded by hotter weather. T/O and approach are the two times you want max performance to either change direction or accelerate away and a fully loaded LA’s performance drastically reduces when you get closer to that weight limit, and it’s the unexpected and uncontrolled that will get you…
My worst experiece was during my VFR night cross country training in a DA20-c1 on a long approach into Worchester Regional. Tower 120 had my aircraft coming in on about a 5 mile approach to runway 29/11 due to wind speed/direction that night. Over the comm I could hear tower in contact with a few heavy on the same approach as well, different controller, however 10-15 miles out. One mile out I call my approach to tower and get visual confirmation from them(they can see me), 1/2 mile in tower I get verification. 15-20 seconds later and at only ~120-150 hundred feet of elevation on final approach, I get a hectic and nervous response from another tower controller " Katana eighty three romeo foxtrot BREAK APPROACH IMMEDIATELY, NORTHEN ABORT!!!". Full power, full prop and a heavy banking climb my instructor and I are frantically looking though the canopy while pulling away only to see a 737 heavy on final not a few thousand feet behind our pervious location. We were close enough to cath a small amount of the planes jet wash as I came about to get back into the pattern. After some “polite and calm” deliberation with the tower we find that the two controller had some pattern overlap and miscomunicated with approach speeds of other craft.
Had the plane been fully loaded to capacity it would have never moved out of the way quick enough. Likely quick enough to avoid a collision, but at the very best I would have been caught up in some SERIOUS turbulence at only 2-300 feet off the ground. It was ugly enough as it was and could have been far worse. Since that event in 2001, I have never loaded a plane anywhere near full cap.
I truly do hope you get into this because flying is an absolute blast. You’ll never get a veiw more beautiful than flying at 3000ft over vermont mid fall, or buzzing over the coast of maine in the early AM when the sun rising. My only gripe is that I never pursued buying a plane myself back in '00-'04 when I was really flying alot because I’d be doing ALOT more of it today had I bought my own. REntal prices and insurance went through the roof in 2004 and I have all but completely stopped flying because of it 
You have specifics about this write me. Be glad to help you out.