Adding greens won't change the 80-10-10 proportions much, at least not in a bad way. (Adding high fat salad dressing will, though.)
Dr. Graham, the 80-10-10 diet guy, recommends getting one to three percent of your daily calories from greens, on average. Because they're so low in calories, that's actually a lot of greens. And if you're eating that much, you can just stick with romaine lettuce, celery, and other mild greens, which are more palatable with the increased sensitivity to taste that eating this way yields.
My last meal of the day is often fruit followed by a huge salad, made with one or two heads of lettuce, plus tomato, cucumber, and/or celery. Sometimes I add avocado or nuts or seeds (tahini), but usually not.
It's looks gigantic, but, as anyone knows who's ever seen how small a bunch of spinach ends up when cooked, it's really not that overwhelming to eat. (No, I don't cook my salads; I break them down the old-fashioned way, by chewing. Or occasionally the new-fangled way, with a blender.)
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