Kay, I'd put the hunger thing down to PMS -- it's a pretty common symptom. I always get fantastically hungry right before my period, and it's usually protein that I find most satisfying. Sometimes it's chocolate, of course, but often enough I find that nothing is going to banish the hunger but a 16-oz ribeye. I've always had a tendency towards anemia, and I think the PMS food monster is my body's way of begging for a little extra nutrition.
It is also not uncommon to be starving for a day or two prior to a "whoosh" (when you lose a couple of pounds literally overnight). If you find yourself being hungry out of the blue, and you're not expecting TOM, an impending woosh is sometimes the cause. Some people will say to feed the hunger, others to resist and eat as normal -- it's one of those issues on which there's a lot of lore and little fact. Me, I eat if I'm hungry, but I also don't eat anything unless I decide to eat it 30 minutes prior. If I'm truly hungry, I'll still be hungry, and if I'm not, 30 minutes is usually enough to distract me.
Like Alina says, there are lots of problems with the sticks, and they're prone to giving either false positives and false negatives. Try not to worry about what they say, and look for the physical symptoms of ketosis (bad "tinny" taste in the mouth, unusual body odor, loss of appetite, feeling hot, etc) instead. In over a year of Atkins, I've never once used the sticks -- when I started, I figured I just wouldn't worry about them unless I didn't lose any weight on Induction, or stalled for a long time, or something, and to this day haven't felt the need to check whether i'm technically in ketosis. It took me a few weeks to recognize the physical signs, but they're a much better guide. Also, It takes 3-4 days to get into ketosis, so just because you're not quite there yet doesn't mean you're doing anything wrong. Try not to worry about the sticks, and stay off the scales for two weeks -- take measurements if you feel like you've got to have some numbers.
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I just got on to add my food to fitday and i am having a small freakfit! I ate for lunch: 1 xl egg fried in with 4 Oz beef in 1 t coconutoil. and about 3 cups lettuce with 1 T hempseed oil. 30 min later, not hungry but STARVING. went to wild oats, picked up a rotisserie chicken cause someone told me i need animal fat. so ate both legs with skin (yuk) and both wings with skin and then picked at the other areas of some more skin hoping to satiate myself. you would think i would feel sick. NO!!! i'm still starving. what is going on. i'm already at close to 2000 cals, 140 g fat and 170 g protein and only 9 g carbs which is probably only 4 g EC. it's day 3 and i feel like HELL. i am day dreaming of going back to my workouts and walks ( can barely move my legs!) and my organic salads and salmon and moderate amounts of flax and hempseed oil. I have to leave because i feel like i will eat the rest of the chicken. and i did gain this morning eating like this so what gives?? i promised myself 1-2 weeks before i make a decision. should i throw in the towel now? sorry but i am really wondering if i can make it thru tonight!! and with all the fat i ate today, i dont have a choice because one insulin surge will send all that fat packing......right into my fat cells! 
normally i do some form of exercise which helos stabilize ny BS but this morning could barely move. the days i exercise, i am less hungry and the days i don't like today i am so hungry. i'm lost..........
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