Annette Sym Travels from Sunshine Coast, QLD

Annette is a bestselling author, low-fat cooking expert, award winning businesswoman, speaker and media identity.

Annette’s story is unique. Having lost 35kg in 20 months and successfully maintained her healthy weight range since 1993 using her low-fat recipes and healthy lifestyle, she has taken a dream, mixed it with passion, added a vision and created a business that helps thousands of people each year to lead healthier and happier lives.

With no tertiary education or previous business experience, she has turned the triumph over her own weight loss and health struggles into a multi-million dollar business and to date has sold nearly 4 million cookbooks all self-published. Annette truly ‘walks the walk and talks the talk’ to show others that they can stop fad dieting, beat the battle of the bulge and lose weight the healthy ‘Symply Too Good To Be True’ way.

Annette is a multi-award winning businesswoman and entrepreneur. In 2012 Annette was given a Senior Fellow Award of the Sunshine Coast University in recognition of her contributions to small business, entrepreneurship and health advocacy. She was included in SmartCompany’s list of top Female Entrepreneurs in Australia in 2010 and BRW magazine’s list of Top 30 Entrepreneurial Women in Australia in 2006.

She was the only Queensland appointee to the Federal Government’s Small Business Council (SBC), and provided advice to the Minister on issues confronting small business in Australia. In 2004 Annette was awarded the Telstra Australian and Queensland Micro Business of the Year Awards, which are the most prestigious awards a business can receive.

Annette has particular interest in health, weight loss and children’s nutrition; she was a Board Member of the Queensland Association of School Tuckshops (QAST) from 2005 to 2009.

Annette is a sought after motivational guest speaker and dynamic seminar presenter, addressing a wide variety of audiences including; national corporations, government agencies, non-profit organisations and weight loss and lifestyle clubs. She also runs 1 day and 3 day workshops that change people’s lives.

Annette is a mentor to those wanting to lose weight, adopt a healthier lifestyle or succeed in a competitive business world. As one of Australia’s most prominent small business entrepreneurs and weight loss and health gurus, Annette inspires others through the story of her own journey. With a genuine desire to see people’s lives transformed, Annette takes people step-by-step into ‘her world’ and offers practical tips, delicious recipes, nutritional advice, weight loss motivation and the secrets to her success.

Annette also runs weight loss retreats throughout the year wish have been a huge success. At her 3 Day Workshop and 7 Day Ultimate Retreat she brings participants into her world of healthy living and teaches them the secrets for long-term weight loss success.