<\/a> Tom Skilling<\/p><\/div>\n
Tom Skilling, Chicago television's superstar meteorologist, says he will undergo gastric bypass surgery Wednesday in an effort to lose weight.<\/p>\n
\"I've been working over the past half-year to get ready for this,\" Skilling announced on Facebook<\/a> Saturday. \"I am actually relieved the moment to get this under way nears.\"<\/p>\n
Skilling, 68, will be on medical leave from his duties as chief meteorologist at Nexstar Media Group WGN-Channel 9,<\/a> starting Tuesday. He said he expects to be out from four to six weeks.<\/p>\n
WGN officials declined to comment, citing confidentiality rules.<\/p>\n
In 2016 Skilling first went public with his struggle when he shared his \"fitness journey\"<\/a>\u00a0in a special report on WGN. \"Finally you get up one day and say: 'I'm sick of looking like this,'\" he told viewers.<\/p>\n