You are already well on your way of lining up the proverbial holes in the cheese
Another one is breaking your own rules because they won't work for a particular flight. If your normal personal rule is to take an hour's spare fuel, then cutting it down to 30 minutes because you've got a weight problem is wrong - you should stick to any such rules you've made for yourself. Break this one and which one are you going to break next? "Oh, I don't usually go flying in a crosswind this high, but it's her birthday"?
Miroc
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It is not legal but technically OK
I dare you to test this assertion...
C'mon, we all know that lots of lessons used to be given in 152s with two blokes and full fuel ... Cessna could, the urban myth goes, have certified it for a considerably higher weight if they hadn't wanted to market it to farmers with short rough grass strips well above sea level. I've not actually tried an overweight 172 but I would not be astonished to hear a similar story.
(FTAOD: Such musings about past misdeeds are
not to be taken as suggestions as to how to behave.)